FRENCH CINEMA

2953 West Devon Avenue,Chicago IL 60659

31 January, 2021

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Watch French Movie French Conversation with Native speaker teacher. RSVP text 312 871 1994 Let's watch a movie and have UNE CAUSERIE ( Une conversation) all in French. RSVP and text to 312 871 1994 to confirm. Any question? text to Jacques 312 871 1994 founder www.jila-chicago.us https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-01-22/netflix-lupin-omar-sy-review REVIEW; Why everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon of Netflix’s French hit, ‘Lupin’ Omar Sy in the Netflix series "Lupin." Omar Sy plays a thief inspired by a character from French fiction in the Netflix series “Lupin.”(Emmanuel Guimier) If you are a person who watches Netflix, you have no doubt been greeted on arrival by a recommendation to watch “Lupin.” If you have not already begun to watch it — and with the streamer having announced an expected 70 million households had at least taken a peek within a month of its Jan. 8 debut, even more than “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chances are good you have — and are spoiler averse, you may want to stop reading now. The first episode is arranged to make you think one thing, which raises all kinds of questions, and leaves you thinking quite another, which raises questions of its own. (Oh, there will be questions.) It’s a long bandwagon you may want to join if you’d like to be somewhere else for a while, a trip to Paris filled with pretty people and views, with action and emotions and just enough meaning — matters of race and class and such — to make you feel that that there is something substantial to the melodrama. “Lupin” refers to the character Arsène Lupin, not particularly well known in the United States these days despite having been played on the American screen by John Barrymore and Melvyn Douglas among others. (In France, the character has appeared in film adaptations, several television series, at least two daily comic strips, an operetta and more.) And yet for whatever reason, without any firsthand knowledge, his was a name rattling around in the big box of pop-cultural bric-a-brac that is my brain; I knew, anyway that he was a “gentleman thief,” like Leslie Charteris’ The Saint, or David Niven in “The Pink Panther.” This fanship goes as far as borrowing practical ideas from the stories and constructing aliases out of anagrams of “Arsene Lupin,” a habit that will attract the interest of a low-level police detective (Soufiane Guerrab as Youssef Guedira) who shares Assane’s love of the books. (That the detective also shares an initial with Lupin’s own adversary, Inspector Ganimard, is possibly not a coincidence.) Ludivine Sagnier is a woman in love with a thief in the Netflix action drama “Lupin.”(Emmanuel Guimier) If not exactly a Robin Hood, Assane, like Lupin, is the sort of criminal who only steals from people who can afford it and likely don’t deserve what they have in the first place, their own gains being morally if not necessarily legally ill-gotten. A master of disguise, whose slightest variation in appearance is enough to make him impossible to identify, he doesn’t carry a gun and uses his fists only in self-defense. Assane is essentially a superhero sans cape, whose powers include a degree of self-confidence that ensures that the thugs dangling him off a balcony will pull him back in or that once he breaks into prison to retrieve a scrap of information, he will be able to break back out . As Lupin is a major fictional figure, Sy is a big star in France — he won the best actor César for “The Intouchables,” an international hit — and has played secondary characters in big-budget American special effects movies (he was Chris Pratt’s assistant in “Jurassic World” and a minor mutant in “X-Men: Days of Future Past”). It was reportedly his desire to play Lupin, whom he’s compared to James Bond (“fun, funny, elegant”), that led to the series, created by British writer George Kay. And it is on his charm that the series largely, though not entirely, rests.