On October 16, Figaro journalist Eric Neuhoff publishes his Dictionnaire chic du cinéma. A jubilant work, far from conventional images. Very clear-cut entries. Hot off the press!
In 300 entries, this critical primer gives free rein to the journalist’s personal likes and dislikes, with a particular focus on actresses, comedies and certain French-speaking directors.
From A for “Adjani” or “Audiard chez les orques” (De Rouille et d’os) to W for the Warner saga, Éric Neuhoff has alphabetized his passion for the 7th art, well known to readers of Le Figaro, listeners of “Le Masque et la Plume” and viewers of “Le Cercle” on Canal Plus. For Neuhoff, cinema is “life in 24 frame-seconds”, with its pleasures, emotions and disappointments. As the pages turn, he gives free rein to his enchantments, his desire to laugh out loud and, of course, his outbursts, scratching at false values with a few trenchant formulas. For Neuhoff has his quarrels: François Ozon, the Garrel brothers and the Dardenne brothers, the latest films by Chatiliez… Neuhoff also has a passion for actresses, those heroines of the “black screens of our sleepless nights”. His dictionary salutes them with a cuddly pen, whether it’s the exquisite Robin Wright, Tilda Swinton or the mischievous Milla Jovovich.Among the 300 entries in this primer: Altman, Bory, Cluzet, Delon, Haneke, Kazan, OSS 117, the so-called “French Quality”, Taxi Driver, Truffaut, Houellebecq’s take on cinema (“Extension du domaine du nanar”), but also a list of the 100 best films, the perverse effects of VF, or Alfred Hitchcock’s review of Almodovár!
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