Fanfan

Sophie Marceau et Vincent Perez dans un film sur la conquete amoureuse et la recherche de preserver les premiers sentiments le long de la relation. Alexandre a une relation stable et est sur le point de se marier mais il rencontre Fanfan qui reveilla en lui les sentiments les plus beau du debut d'une relation. Il essaye de faire durer ces sentiments en gardant l'innocence du debut. Il croit avoir trouve la solution. Ce film peut etre la reponse a des questions que nous nous posons au moment ou l'on commence une relation. Comment faire pour que ca dure, pour que nos sentiments restent vives? C'est une question a laquelle il faut absolument repondre a deux.

Sophie Marceau si Vincent Perez intr-un film despre cucerirea dragostei si cautarea preservarii primelor sentimente pe parcursul intregii relatii. Alexandre are o relatie stabila si este pe cale sa se casatoreasca dar o intalneste pe Fanfan care trezeste in el cele mai frumoase sentimente ale inceputului unei relatii. El incearca sa permanentizeze aceste sentimente pastrand inocenta inceputului si crede ca a gasit solutia. Acest film poate fi raspunsul intrebarilor pe care ni le punem in momentul in care incepem o relatie. Cum sa facem ca aceste sentimente sa dureze, pentru ca aceste sentimente sa ramana vii? Este o intrebare la care trebuie sa se raspunda in doi.

Sophie Marceau and Vincent Perez in a movie about the quest of love and the search of preserving the first feelings during the whole relation. Alexandre has a long lasting relationship and is about to get married but the encounter of Fanfan wakes the most beautiful feelings in him, the ones of the begining of a relationship. He tries to make these feelings last by holding on to the innocence of the begining and he thinks that he has found the answer. This movie can be the answer to our questions when starting a relationship. How can we make these feelings last? How do we keep them alive? These are questions that we can only answer together.

Je reste (2003)

Un film avec Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Charles Berling. Marie-Dominique et Bertrand forment un couple apparement uni. Seulement en apparence car tandis que Marie-Dominique fait tout pour que la famille soit en parfaite harmonie Bertrand son mari qui travaille comme ingenieur sur des projets dans le monde entier, passe son temps entre son egoisme excentrique, les avions, hotesses de l'air et sa grande passion le velo. Marie-Dominique le suit en consacrant sa vie a soutenir son mari et a s'occuper de leur enfant. Sa rencontre avec Antoine ecrivain et qui tout comme elle est amateur de cinema et d'art, reveille ses desirs de devenir une femme independente et de s'epanouir. Elle decide alors grace a sa nouvelle relation amoureuse de quitter Bertrand, mais celui-ci ne se laisse pas vaincre et fait tout pour empecher sa femme de partir.
C'est un film plein de surprises dans lequel on peut reconnaitre des traits de caractere de personnes qu'on connait dans la vie reelle.

Un film cu Sophie Marceau,Vincent Perez, Charles Berling. Marie-Dominique si cu Bertrand formeaza un cuplu in aparenta unit. Numai in aparenta pentru ca in timp ce Marie-Dominique face tot pentru ca familia ei sa fie in perfecta armonie, Bertrand sotul ei, care lucreaza ca inginer la niste proiecte internationale, isi petrece timpul intre egoismul excentric, avioane, stewardeze si marea sa pasiune ciclismul. Marie-Dominique il urmeaza si isi consacra viata sustinerii sotului sau si ingrijirii copilului lor. Insa intalnirea sa cu scriitorul Antoine care ca si ea este pasionat de cinema si de arta, ii trezeste dorinta de a inflori si de a deveni o femeie independenta. Relatia sa amoroasa cu Antoine o incurajeaza sa se desparta de Bertrand si sa inceapa o viata noua dar acesta nu se lasa invins de noile ambitii ale sotiei sale si face orice ca sa o impiedice sa plece de acasa.
Este un film plin de surprize in care putem recunoaste reactii si comportamente ale unor oameni pe care ii cunoastem in viata reala.

A movie with Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Charles Berling. Marie-Dominique and Bertrand seem like a solid couple. It is only an appearence because while Marie-Dominique does all she can for maintaining a perfect harmony in her family, Betrand her husband, who works in the constructions and has project all over the world,spends his time between his excentric selfishness, plains, steward ladies and his passion cyclism. Marie-Dominique follows him and spends her time with supporting her husband and their son. The meeting with Antoine a writer and a cinematography and art fan like her,woke up in her the desire to grow and become an independent woman. The love affaire with Antoine encourages her to break up with Bertrand and to begin a new life but Bertrand doesn't give up and does all he can to stop his wife from leaving.
It is a movie full of surprizes and unexpected situations in which we can recognize reactions and the behavior of people we know in real life.

Ensemble c'est tout***

Un autre film avec Audrey Tautou, sur l'amitie, l'amour et l'humanite. Qui merite a etre vu pour son histoire ainsi que pour les acteurs. Une love story a la francaise avec beaucoup de realisme et naturellement petillant par-ci, par-la. C'est aussi un filme sur la noblesse des gens, que ce soit la noblesse de l'ame ou le rang herite. C'est un filme interessant a voir pour rappeller et faire connaitre a ceux qui ne savent pas beaucoup sur les familles nobles de l'Europe de l'Est. Leurs descendents gardent encore en heritage la tradition et les manieres qui malheureusement se sont presque completement dissipees dans les societe modernes europeennes et occidentales.

Un alt film cu Audrey Tautou despre prietenie, dragoste si umanitate. Care merita a fi vazut atat pentru poveste cat si pentru actori. Un love-story tipic francez, cu mult realism si naturalete. Este un film despre nobletea oamenilor, despre nobletea sufletului si nobletea data de rangul mostenit. Este un film interesant de vazut, care aminteste celor care cunosc si arata celor care nu stiu nimic despre familiile nobile din Europa de Est. Urmasii lor, pastreaza in continuare ca mostenire traditia si manierele care din pacate au disparut aproape complet in societatile moderne europene si occidentale.

Another movie with Audrey Tautou about friendship, love and humanity. It is worthy seeing it because of the story but also for the actors. It is a tipycal french love story , with a lot of realism and a natural excitement. It is a movie about people's noblesse, the soul's and the one inherited as a social rank. It is an interesting movie which reminds for those who know and shows for those who don't know what the East European Noblesse is about. Their descendants keep the value of their inheritance of the tradition and the manners which, unfortunately, have disappeared almost completely in the modern european and occidental societies.

***Le nouveau film de Claude Berri, Ensemble c'est tout, Pathé Distribution avec Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker et Francoise Bertin, un film d'apres le roman d'Anna Gavalda.

A la follie, pas dutout

Un filme avec Audrey Tautou qui joue le role d'une jeune fille amoureuse.
C'est l'histoire d'un amour impossible, d'un amour obsessif qui touche le pathologique.
Une mise en scene un peu speciale, un va et vien dans l'histoire. Le spectateur verra les deux cotes de l'histoire comme dans deux plaidoyers des parties opposees.
Tout se deroule dans le rythme du battement du coeur d'Angelique qui tombe follement et subitement amoureuse de Loic. Le reste est a voir si vous avez la patience de regarder un filme originalement francais.

Un film cu Audrey Tautou care joaca rolul unei fete indragostite.
Este povestea unei iubiri imposibile, unei iubiri obsesive care atinge patologicul.
O scenografie un pic speciala, un dialog intre doua puncte de vedere. Filmul are o structura asemanatoare unei pledoarii tinuta de fiecare dintre cele doua parti opuse.
Totul se desfasoara in ritmul batailor inimii lui Angelique care se indragosteste nebuneste si in mod subit de Loic. Restul ramane de vazut daca aveti rabdarea sa vedeti un film original francez.

A movie with Audrey Tautou, who plays the role of a girl in love.
It is a story about an impossible love, an obsessive love which touches the pathology.
The scenario is a bit special, it is a dialog between two different points of view. Everything happens in the rythm of the heart beats of Angelique's heart who suddenly and madly in love with Loic. The rest is to be seen if you have the patience to watch an original french movie.

Sinucideri

Am avut un soc cand am vazut la televizor poza unei persoane pe care am cunoscut-o cu mult timp in urma anuntata la capitolul tentativa de sinucidere.
Nu voi da nume probabil ca cei care au urmarit stirile stiu despre cine este vorba.
Daca oamenii ar cauta sa asculte mai mult si sa dea mai mult celor din jurul lor, aceste lucruri nu s-ar intampla.
Dupa umila mea parere nu merita sa alegi acest gest nici ca fiind prima solutie nici macar ca si o ultima solutie. Nimic nu este mai pretios pe lume decat viata si ar trebui sa profitam la maxim de ea. Pentru cei care vor citi acest mesaj sper ca prima solutie sa incercati atunci cand aveti probleme sa vorbiti cu cineva si in al doilea rand sa cautati solutille bune nu pe cele usoare atunci cand ceva va deranjeaza.

Doamne ajuta!
Toate cele bune.

Places in time: totalitarian art and architecture -Germany

The relation between the construction of the nation states and the art. This moment concerns the XIX'th century in Germany and Italy. This period explains how the use of art constitues the row material due to serve to justify the existence of the nation before the state was built (usage of the past). Art was used by new states to install themselves and to represent them and also to legitimate themselves.

During the first half of the XX 'th century, the confrontation between the regimes communist and fascist did not limit itself at the ideology and military , but also concerned the cultural field. In fact the USSR of Stalin, the Germany of Hitler and the Italy of Mussolini created a common estethic in spite of their politic oposition. Those totalitarian regimes have used the art as an instrument of their propaganda.

If art is an active agent of communication between people it is also because it is equally a means of expression of the ideology. One question that follows is in what way the art has participated to the enrolment of the people?

The architecture has offered the luxury and display, its giantism has expressed the authority, giving rise to both fear and admiration. Concerning the fine arts they challanged the supreme chief and they announced the arrival of the "new man". Arts in general gave some form to the totalitarian utopia, which had as a final purpose to change the nature of the human being: to annihilate any form of individualism.

They imagined man as a simple wheel of a huge machine, the one of the all mighty state. The objective was to convince the people of its superiority and to make it accept all the sacrifices in a spiritual union with the Head of State. The art was not the reflection of the society but the reflection of the idea that the power had made of the people

Art was concieved by the our contemporaneous, according of its ways of evolution, as an essential construction of the continuityof the state and that of a political systhem and not only as a clothing of the politic.

Art as a vector of the politic: in other words which functions the diferent regimes assign to the art? Teaching vertues, demonstrative ones, reconversion?...

How is politic represented? According to which estethic canons? Do the political regimes invent new ways of particular representation or do they just borrow the ones existing in order to convert them and use them? To which restraints and logic answer these artistic works immediately related to the politics?
Art as a political practice: the estheticism of the polics is a phenomenon which was underlined by Walter Benjamin for the nazi but which can also be applicable to other form of government.
Art was concieved to convert the people in both a symbolic way for the essential legitimation of the regime but also because of the esthetic emotion of the mass which was concieved as an efficient diving force for the membership and attachment to the values the regime proposed. The monumental art, for example, is difficult to understand if it is detached of the political liturgy which served as a case as the fascist art did.

The nazi choices: the plans of Berlin by Hilter and Speer, the principles, the works (architecture and sculpture) that are to be found in Albert Speer's Books and Memoires, as the architectural delirium of the II-rd Reich. Hitler does not like Berlin he wishes to give it the looks of his political ambitions. The showcase of the regime has to go through a sisethmatic demolition of the buildings which could stop the projects of the architect Albert Speer. Only the war has delayed the constructions of the new capital baptised "Germania" of which inauguration was due to the universal exposition in 1950;nevertheless the old town has been destroyed. The only visible constructions are those of the olympic installations of the olympic games of 1936's summer of Werner March, the airport of Tempelhof by Ernst Sagebiel, the administrative complex of the Fehrbelliner Platz, the barracks of the former Quartier Napoleon ( occupied after 1945 by the French Forces stationed in Germany) and the former minstry of the Air the Reichsluftfahrtministerium

On conservatism

On Conservatism

It could be told that the Conservatism has no status as a program, ideology or political philosophy. Sometimes even its status as a political condition, stand is interrogated.
From Huntington's point of view "the ideology is a system of ideas regarding the distribution of political and social values according to a significant social group". According to Huntington, there are three large conceptions of the Conservatism which are in conflict.
The first one is the "aristocratic theory" which defines the conservatism as an Ideology of the historical movement which is unique and specific to a moment in time. It is the reaction of the feudal-aristocratic and agrarian social classes to the French Revolution, the Liberalism and the progress of the "bourgeoisie" at the end of the XVIII th century and at the beginning of the first half of the XIX th century.
Karl Mennheim describes the modern conservatism as a "function of a particular historical and sociological situation"

The liberalism is the ideology of the middle classes; the socialism and the Marxism are ideologies of the proletarian and the conservatism the ideology of aristocracy.
The Conservatism becomes in an indissoluble manner associated with the feudalism and the "Ancien Regime", the medieval period and the nobility. It is opposed to the middle classes, the work, the trade and the industrialization but also to the democracy, the liberalism and the individualism, as Huntington observes. According to Louis Hartz, the United States don't have a feudal tradition, and the efforts of the intellectuals of spreading the conservative ideas through the middle classes are doomed to fail.
The second theory is the "autonomous" one. In which the conservatism is not necessarily related to the interests of a particular group or dependent of a historical specific configuration of the social forces. "Conservatism is an autonomous system of ideas which are generally valid"

It is defined in terms of universal values as the justice, the order, the balance and moderation. The conservatism as Russell Kirk argues is simply a problem of "will and intelligence". The principles of the conservatism are not reduced to a one and only class of interests. According to this theory, the conservatives may appear from different classes and occupations. This theory is popular in the Neo-conservative class.
The third theory is based on the circumstantial definition. It defines the conservatism as an ideology which appears from the distinction of a recurrent type of historical situation in which the major challenge is addressed to the established institutions, and of which supporters use the conservative ideology for defending those institutions. "The conservatism is that system of values used to justify any social established order, anywhere and anytime it may exist, against the fundamental challenges of its nature"

Huntington also argues that the essence of the conservatism is "the passionate affirmation of the values of the existing institutions". This doesn't mean that it is opposed to all the changes. But for preserving the social fundamental values it may be necessary to put the changes on a second plan. To be a conservative you must be happy with the existent order and to be willing to fight against a serious challenge.
The difference between the three theories is closely related to the relation between the conservative ideology and the historical process. The aristocratic definition reduces the conservative ideology to a particular social class in a particular type of society. The autonomous theory, allows the appearance of the conservatism in any moment of the history. The circumstantial theory argues that the conservatives appear when social groups oppose themselves to the challenges and defend their status in relation with other social groups.
A common point between the three theories is that they agree on the content of the conservative ideology: the substance of the values and the ideas in which the conservatives believe.

One of the most important representative figures of the Conservatism is Edmund Burke. In his work we can find the structure of the conservative thinking.