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Aesthetics8 March 2021

2021 Board Films

By Pamela Albarrán , Nina Bernfeld , Cécile Bodénès , Philippe Brelot , Michele Gurrieri , Thomas Lallier , Margaux Lenfant , Charlie Lenormand , Valentine Lequet , Maxence Muller , Julien Pamart , François-Xavier Le Reste and Marion Rey

Following the Films du CA 2020, and as a tradition takes hold whenever an event recurs, here is a new vintage of the Films du CA — the 2021 edition!
Five films, no explanations, no justifications, and no context to introduce themselves in cinephilia…

Pamela Albarrán Rodríguez

  • Au Revoir les Enfants (1987), by Louis Malle. DP Renato Berta.
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991), by Jonathan Demme. DP Tak Fujimoto.
  • Mulholland Drive (2001), by David Lynch. DP Peter Deming.
  • The Florida Project (2017), by Sean Baker. DP Alexis Zabe.
  • Honeyland (2019), by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov. DP Samir Ljuma.

Nina Bernfeld

  • Living in Oblivion (1995), by Tom DiCillo. DP Frank Prinzi.
  • Little Miss Sunshine (2006), by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. DP Tim Suhrstedt.
  • Cameraperson (2016), by Kirsten Johnson. DP Kirsten Johnson.
  • Get Out (2017), by Jordan Peele. DP Toby Oliver.
  • Nuestro Tiempo (2018), by Carlos Reygadas. DP Diego García and Adrian Durazo.

Cécile Bodénès

  • Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), by Marcel Carné. DP Roger Hubert.
  • Once Upon a Time in America (1984), by Sergio Leone. DP Tonino Delli Colli.
  • Lisbon Story (1994), by Wim Wenders. DP Lisa Rinzler.
  • A Family Secret (2003), by Mariana Otero. DP Hélène Louvart.
  • Captain Ahab (2007), by Philippe Ramos. DP Laurent Desmet.

Philippe Brelot

  • The Rules of the Game (1939), by Jean Renoir. DP Jean Bachelet.
  • Taxi Driver (1976), by Martin Scorsese. DP Michael Chapman.
  • The Duellists (1977), by Ridley Scott. DP Frank Tidy.
  • Apocalypse Now (1979), by Francis Ford Coppola. DP Vittorio Storaro.
  • Wings of Desire (1987), by Wim Wenders. DP Henri Alekan.

Michele Gurrieri

  • Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), by Maya Deren. DP Alexander Hammid.
  • 8½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963), by Federico Fellini. DP Gianni Di Venanzo.
  • Images (1971), by Robert Altman. DP Vilmos Zsigmond.
  • An American Werewolf in London (1981), by John Landis. DP Robert Paynter.
  • Videodrome (1983), by David Cronenberg. DP Mark Irwin.

Thomas Lallier

  • The Troubles We have Seen (1994), by Marcel Ophuls. DP Pierre Boffety, Pierre Milon.
  • The Limey (1999), by Steven Soderbergh. DP Edward Lachman.
  • Vacances prolongées (2000), by Johan van der Keuken. DP Johan van der Keuken.
  • There Will Be Blood (2007), by Paul Thomas Anderson. DP Robert Elswit.
  • A Prophet (2009), by Jacques Audiard. DP Stéphane Fontaine.

Margaux Lenfant

  • Full Metal Jacket (1987), by Stanley Kubrick. DP Douglas Milsome.
  • Seven (1995), by David Fincher. DP Darius Khondji.
  • Mulholland Drive (2001), by David Lynch. DP Peter Deming.
  • The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012), by Felix Van Groeningen. DP Ruben Impens.
  • 1917 (2019), by Sam Mendes. DP Roger Deakins.

Charlie Lenormand

  • The Red Shoes (1948), by M. Powell and E. Pressburger. DP Jack Cardiff.
  • Le Cercle Rouge (1970), by Jean-Pierre Melville. DP Henri Decaë.
  • The Shining (1980), by Stanley Kubrick. DP John Alcott.
  • Princess Mononoke (1997), by Hayao Miyazaki. DP Atsushi Okui.
  • The Thin Red Line (1998), by Terrence Malick. DP John Toll.

Valentine Lequet

  • Sunrise (1927), by F.W. Murnau. DP Charles Rosher and Karl Struss.
  • The Trial (1962), by Orson Welles. DP Edmond Richard.
  • Control (2007), by Anton Corbijn. DP Martin Ruhe.
  • Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), by Jim Jarmusch. DP Yorick Le Saux.
  • The Assassin (2015), by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. DP Mark Lee Ping-bin.

Maxence Muller

  • Pather Panchali (1955), by Satyajit Ray. DP Subrata Mitra.
  • A Woman Is a Woman (1961), by Jean-Luc Godard. DP Raoul Coutard.
  • Kwaidan (1964), by Masaki Kobayashi. DP Yoshio Miyajima.
  • Fellini’s Roma (1972), by Federico Fellini. DP Giuseppe Rotunno.
  • Uncut Gems (2019), by Benny and Josh Safdie. DP Darius Khondji.

Julien Pamart

  • Amadeus (1984), by Miloš Forman. DP Miroslav Ondříček.
  • High Heels (1991), by Pedro Almodóvar. DP Alfredo Mayo.
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas (1994), by Henry Selick. DP Pete Kozachik.
  • Underground (1995), by Emir Kusturica. DP Vilko Filač.
  • In the Mood for Love (2000), by Wong Kar-wai. DP Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin.

François-Xavier Le Reste

  • Little Big Man (1970), by Arthur Penn. DP Harry Stradling Jr..
  • Excalibur (1981), by John Boorman. DP Alex Thomson.
  • The Right Stuff (1983), by Philip Kaufman. DP Caleb Deschanel.
  • Trainspotting (1996), by Danny Boyle. DP Brian Tufano.
  • 24 Hour Party People (2002), by Michael Winterbottom. DP Robby Müller.

Marion Rey

  • Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), by Susan Seidelman. DP Edward Lachman.
  • Fargo (1996), by Joel and Ethan Coen. DP Roger Deakins.
  • Jackie Brown (1997), by Quentin Tarantino. DP Guillermo Navarro.
  • Insomnia (2002), by Christopher Nolan. DP Wally Pfister.
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), by Tim Burton. DP Philippe Rousselot.