Introducing Allen's opening night film Café Society at the Lumiere cinema, master of ceremonies Laurent Lafitte told the director: "It's very nice that you've been shooting so many movies in Europe, even if you are not being convicted for rape in the US".
"It's all there, the 'matched luggage'... 'What's it like to kill a man?' the son et lumiere at 'Frankie's' flat — entire paragraphs copied verbatim from John Gardner's text".
It is called L'Empire des Lumieres and was the best thing I saw.
If cinema is illusion, and from its birth it is linked to magic, then the visual and sensory experience Alfonso and Emmanuel "El Chivo" Lubezki achieved in the first 30 minutes of Gravity equate to that first image of the train by the Lumiere brothers that so greatly impacted the first audience in the theater, even making them flee.
Courtesy Lumiere Technology If so, it was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and possibly millions.
It is a beautiful sight, a son et lumiere for the Lothian landscape that doubles as a commemoration of the limitless dead.
In the 1980s, the Kaz was a chrome-railed, glitzy nitespot (think Leee John's Imagination and bubble perms); now it is the spiritual home to a collective of creative mavericks staging son et lumiere costume parties, riotous sci-fi-themed theatrical "happenings" and inspired art installations.
When it was announced earlier this year that Alessandro Michele would be taking over Westminster Abbey for Gucci Cruise Collection, it was teed up by covering the building in neon lights as part of the Lumiere festival last January.
London's Cine Lumiere is showing Isabelle Czajka's Living On Love Alone, a tart tragicomedy about the hell of working life and the call of rebellion.
It had been expected to get stiff competition from Welcome, Philippe Lioret's immigration drama, which had 10 nominations to A Prophet's 13 and had been the big winner at the Lumiere awards earlier in the year.
