By now we’ve established the identity of the mystery woman Kanye West was making out with in France: Virginie Maury.
Virginie is a French actress whose most famous role thus far has been as the receiver of West’s wily tongue on a balcony in Cannes, France.
The Chicago rapper is very into art and film, even having made a few of his own. What then would Kanye be interested in screening while checking out the ladies and the films in the South of France?
Find out after the break.
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“Melancholia”
Melancholia, by Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, is about a hidden planet that reveals its self during the wedding of a young Danish woman. It’s a psychological analysis about the pressures of modernity, gender and the end of the world.
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“Sleeping Beauty”
Based on the Japanese novel “The House of Sleeping Beauties,” by Yusanari Kawataba, this Jane Campion production stars “Sucker Punch”‘s Emily Browning as a prostitute who works in a house where comatose sex workers get fondled by pervy johns.
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“The Tree of Life”
Directed by Terrence Mallick and starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, “The Tree of Life” is a 1950s period piece that is also sci-fi and surreal. It examines the human condition via the memories of a man who was born and raised in the American South.
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“Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Ichimei)”
This latest offering from master Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike is the first samurai movie in 3D. The story revolves around a samurai who wants to leave the world in honor by committing suicide. It’s very moving and graphic.
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“The Skin I Live (La Piel Que Habito)”
After a lengthy absence, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has reunited with Antonio Banderas in the clever and unsettling “The Skin I Live.” Banderas plays a cunning plastic surgeon who invents a skin that would withstand any attack, after his wife is burned to death. He has the brains, the brawn, an accomplice and a guinea pig.
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“We Need To Talk About Kevin”
Based on the Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, “We Need To Talk About Kevin” stars British actress and budding fashion icon Tilda Swinton playing a mother with a difficult son. Kevin was a pain in the ass ever since he was a baby. When he turned 15, however, he crosses the line in his community, forcing his mother to search her feelings for him.
