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TEMPTATIONS
SERGE GAINSBOURG
& JANE BIRKIN:
Je t’aime … moi non plus
CARLA BRUNI:
Someone told me
EDITH PIAF:
No, I do not regret anything
PLASTIC BERTRAND:
That plane for me
CÉLINE DION:
Because you still love me
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EMMA
“Handsome, clever and rich” is how Emma’s tagline
describes its matchmaking heroine (Anya Taylor-Joy),
but it’s also an apt summation of director Autumn de
Wilde’s Jane Austen adaptation, which is energized by
meticulous style, spirited wit and passionate emotions.
Hewing closely to its source material, the film
charts Emma Woodhouse’s efforts to find a suitor
for her doting companion Harriet Smith (Mia Goth)
while struggling with her own blossoming feelings for
her sister’s brother-in-law, George Knightley (Johnny
Flynn). Round and round the romantic entanglements
go, not only for these three characters but a host of
others that de Wilde and screenwriter Eleanor Catton
faithfully delineate in clean, bright brushstrokes.
Its studied imagery suggesting a daintier variation on
Wes Anderson’s trademark visuals, Emma boasts an
aesthetic confidence that’s matched by its performers.
At the head of that impressive pack (which also
includes Bill Nighy) is Taylor-Joy, whose Emma exudes
just the right amount of playful cockiness and ambition
– qualities ultimately undercut by her realization
that no amount of manipulations can change what the
heart wants.