timespace coordinates: (retrofuturistic) Victorian London >Lisbon >Alexandria >Paris
Poor Things is a 2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara. It stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael. Based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray, (wiki)
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timespace coordinates: 1793 – 1821 France/ the Coalition Wars / Siege of Toulon, Battle of the Pyramids, Battle of Austerlitz, French invasion of Russia, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Waterloo / Elba, the island of Saint Helena
Napoleon is a 2023 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott. Based on the story of Napoleon Bonaparte, primarily depicting the French leader’s rise to power as well as his relationship with his wife, Joséphine, the film stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as Joséphine. (wiki)
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timespace coordinates: 2020’s Paris > the Dominican Republic > New Orleans, Louisiana > St. Petersburg, Florida > Beacon, New York > Chicago
The Killer is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by David Fincher based on the French graphic novel series The Killer written by Alexis “Matz” Nolent and illustrated by Luc Jacamon.
The film stars Michael Fassbender in the title role, alongside Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Kerry O’Malley, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte, and Tilda Swinton in supporting roles. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 2009 – 2012 India, Washington, D.C. the White House, China / Tibet / the Himalayas, Los Angeles, Yellowstone National Park, the Las Vegas Valley, the Pacific Ocean
2012 is a 2009 American science fiction disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. The film stars John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt, Thandiwe Newton, Danny Glover, Zlatko Buric and Woody Harrelson. Based on the 2012 phenomenon, its plot follows geologist Adrian Helmsley (Ejiofor) and novelist Jackson Curtis (Cusack) as they experience an eschatological sequence of events including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, megatsunamis and a global flood, all of which were imagined by subscribers to the hypothesis. (wiki)
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“Joe le taxi” is a song about a taxi driver, Joe, who works in Paris. Joe is a pseudonym of Maria José Leão dos Santos (1955–2019), a Portuguese taxi driver and Parisian nightlife figure who fled the Estado Novo authoritarian regime to France in the 1970s due to her homosexuality.
The song emphasizes the notion that Joe seems to know all there is to know about the French capital including the whereabouts of all the little bars, all of the Parisian streets, the Seine, and bridges. The song’s lyrics suggest that Joe enjoys drinking rum, has a passion for Latin music and her saxophone (“saxo jaune”, or “yellow saxophone”). Spanish-Cuban bandleader Xavier Cugat and Peruvian exotica singer Yma Súmac are also referenced in the lyrics. (wiki)
1987 music video, directed by Jean-Sébastien Deligny
spacetime coordinates: 1890 – 1891 London / Paris / Switzerland
Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 period mystery action film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively.
Eccentric detective Holmes and his companion Watson are hired by a secret society to foil a mysticist’s plot to gain control of Britain by seemingly supernatural means. Rachel McAdams stars as their former adversary Irene Adler and Mark Strong portrays villain Lord Henry Blackwood.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a 2011 period mystery action film directed by Guy Ritchie. It is the sequel to the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law reprised their roles as Holmes and Watson, respectively, alongside Noomi Rapace as Simza, Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes, Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty, and Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler. Although the film follows an original premise, it incorporates more closely elements of Conan Doyle’s short stories, including “The Final Problem” (1893) and “The Adventure of the Empty House” (1903). In the film, Holmes and Watson travel across Europe with a Romani adventuress to foil an intricate plot by their cunning nemesis, Professor Moriarty, to instigate a major European conflict.
spacetime coordinates: Paris and the French countryside—mostly Brittany—of the 1920s << trenches of the Somme during World War One
A Very Long Engagement (French: Un long dimanche de fiançailles, “A long Sunday of engagement”) is a 2004 French-American romantic war drama film, co-written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel and Marion Cotillard. It was based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Sébastien Japrisot. (wiki)
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