Sunday face funny from Stanley Donen with exquisite Audrey Hepburn 8 45 p

Finished holiday: twenty-two new (whose 15 day before yesterday) have already invested the screens in the beginning of 2007. Persistent inflation continues to crush the "small movies" too discreet, as this race to the "always more" condemns to quickly leave the poster. In the movie buff so to run fast...

Thus, in this week where landed on 500 screens, "apocalypto", great "historical" fresco on the Maya which shows especially, once again, the fascination of Mel Gibson for a dramatic that gratuitous violence (because historically false), it is first three films the music may have difficulty being heard long, but that it would be a pity not to move the ear. First, released last week, a Mexican, "The violin", Francisco Vargas Quevedo, beautiful story in black and white of the confrontation of an old thing musician and an officer lover in the heart of the sierra. The first helps the peasant guerrillas and attempts to retrieve their weapons, the beard of the second that the stalks and burned their village. A lesson in courage and film sobriety. Then, also sober... and moving, an Italian, "Saimir", by Francesco Munzi, portrait of an Albanian in break with his father teenager, emigrated on the coast of Lazio, which associates it with its illegal and even, sometimes, young intended for minors in prostitution trafficking. Loneliness, shame, revolt, all in a Italy little cosiness, as rarely seen: an interesting test run. Finally a Romanian, "12: 08 pm in Eastern Bucharest", of Corneliu Porumboriu, which won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in contant the preparation and the conduct of a television show evoking, sixteen years after the day when Ceausescu was ousted from power, how he has lived in a small provincial town. A lucid, fiercely ironic and largely disenchanted, look on a country just enter in Europe... A add to this list the creativeness "what a wonderful world" of Moroccan Faouzi Bensaïdi (already author of the beautiful "Thousand months") which combines, in the Casablanca of today, burlesque, romanticism, polar, parody and cinéphiliques winks in a patchwork of uncommon originality.

Of course, should also cite, for lovers of stamped action Hong Kong, the two branches of the last opus of Johnny To, "election 1", "election 2" on the triads. Alternatively, for those who prefer the romantic comedy a little spicy originality, "The incredible fate of Harold Crick", by Marc Foster, where fiction fiction comes to interfere in the real world. But if you have to choose... Finally, note in recovery, "Low hand on the town", magistral pamphlet of Francesco Rosi on real estate shenanigans, a subject that has no age...

Always on display

Output, it will save "hollywoodland", polar attaching that plunges us into the scenes of Hollywood at the time of the unexplained death of a comedian famous for his interpretation of Superman in a television series. And, but only to forget the winter in the Sun of Provence, the nunuche of Ridley Scott "great year", where Russel Crowe, heinous shark City, succumbed to the combined charms small wines of the South, the Luberon and Marion Cotillard. A recall yet, great films by the end of 2006, "The departed" of Martin Scorsese, of course, "The Queen" of Stephen Frears and, "last but not least", but unfortunately now confined to a handful of rooms the very nice "Lady Chatterley" of Pascale Ferran, prix Louis-Delluc. Not to mention, although more modest, but beautiful, the Chadian "Daratt", which leads a vengeful teenager to forgiveness... Nor, for all the same smile, two beautiful French comedies of December, "Bad faith", Roschdy Zem, and "priceless", in Pierre Salvadori.

On the small screen

Saturday: "it was after the revolution," Sergio Leone (23 hours, CC copyright). Sunday: "face funny", from Stanley Donen, with exquisite Audrey Hepburn (8: 45 p.m., Arte).