In 2009 Contrasto launched a new project and created the series “Box”: Photo:Box, Fashion:box, Music:Box and Movie:Box. The series was soon published abroad. The first title was Photo:Box, it has…
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Francesca Johnson's future seems peordained when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life. While her husband and children are…
In 2012, Amos Gitaï was invited by the Rencontres d’Arles to exhibit his work at the Eglise des Précheurs, a place steeped in history, a curious choice for a director…
In 1917, in the red light district of Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she…
Here is a book we read with jubilation, glamour and cinema’s family photo album. A time period when celebrities were not treated as “vulgar” people, but as “stars”. A distant…
Andrei Tarkovsky is a Russian filmmaker born in 1932 and deceased in 1986 in France at 54. Despite the censorship he suffered in his native country, he made seven feature…
Dennis Hopper, the outlaw of American film, died in May 2010. For the general public, however, he will forever remain that beatnik cavalier sitting astride his Harley Davidson in the…
« Boat People » is a Hong Kong film directed by Ann Hui, first shown in theatres in 1982. The film stars George Lam, Andy Lau, Cora Miao, and Season Ma. At…
Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral.…