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Le "Nu descendant l'escalier" peint par Marcel Duchamp en 1912 est, avec "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" de Picasso, le tableau emblématique de la révolution picturale du XXe siècle…

Saigon in the 1950s: Mui, a 10-year-old peasant girl, has come to serve a rich family. A discreet, almost invisible spy, she learns their secrets - the husband runs the household to ruin. Ten years later, she moves on to a more modern home where the young master chooses her over his Westernized fiancée. He teaches her to read, but doesn't really remove her from the kitchen. Tran Anh Hung, a Vietnamese raised in Paris, has made a hymn to subservience riddled with symbols. The papaya of the title is picked by servants: when ripe it is a fruit, when green, a vegetable. The name Mui means aroma and Yen-Khé Tran Nu who plays the ripe Mui is certainly sweet. Shot in a studio outside Paris, the enticing settings (a latticed house, a dream kitchen), the subdued tone and insinuating soundtrack make an aesthetic whole that coincides with the current exotica fascination, particularly in France where nostalgia for the colonial past dies hard.

Long ago, a group of sorcerers from Acheron created a mask from the skulls of dead kings and sacrificed their pure blood daughters to the dark gods in order to give the mask the power to subjugate the entire world. After killing countless people in their campaign to conquer the planet, the sorcerers were defeated by barbarian…

Long ago, a group of sorcerers from Acheron created a mask from the skulls of dead kings and sacrificed their pure blood daughters to the dark gods in order to give the mask the power to subjugate the entire world. After killing countless people in their campaign to conquer the planet, the sorcerers were defeated by barbarian tribes who…

Un an après le meurtre inexpliqué d'une jeune fille, un adolescent débarque au poste de police : nu, le corps ensanglanté, il porte un couteau à la main. Rongé par la culpabilité depuis le crime survenu un an plus tôt, le shérif Jack Sheppard est déteminé à percer l'identité du jeune homme.