Violence and seduction the recipe is safe

Violence and seduction, the recipe is safe. Last week, it ran the world, scotché the Basques of the smoking of agent 007, most brutal that sexy, twenty-first century requires. This week, it simply with pleasure of the streets of Boston, by strained by two beautiful boys also traps that rogue cops (and vice versa) between gangs and police. It is, this time, Martin Scorsese leading dance, with its usual maestria, in "The departed", all irlandos-Americans. A film of men (Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, sublime in cabled sponsor) where morality is all colors, and, as usual, a realization of a virtuosity without fault. Just a flat: the evil scenario is that the exact nameplates from a excellent polar of Hong Kong, "Internal Affairs".

Violence and seduction unite again, for better or for worse, in "Black Book", the new film of the Dutch Paul Verhoeven, tucked in the country after its Hollywood triumphs. This breathless thriller tells the story of a young Jewish infiltrated by a network of resistance in German intelligence in the Hague. Sometimes shot with heavy hooves bataves but effective... At opposite ends of these action films, the violence is intellectual perversity in "I think of you", from Pascal Bonitzer. A film intimate, tout-parisien, vaguely keep but brilliant on an infernal Quartet in the small publishing community around Saint-Germain-des-Prés, with Edouard Baer and Charles Berling.

First three films are trying their luck. A French, fragile but sincere, "La Faute à fidel" signed to a beginner in the famous name, Julie Gavras, that tells the misunderstanding and revolt of a little girl whose parents played havoc with the existence in engaging in political activism. And two South Americans, less conventional: "the Buddha of Buenos Aires", of the Argentine Diego Rafecas, storytelling a little heavily a spiritual quest, but especially "Madeinusa", of the Peruvian Claudia Llosa, diving in the universe patriarchal and superstitious village lost in the Cordillera of the Andes...

Finally, remember to children (6 - 10 years), "Mouse City", nice epic two small rats pursued by an ugly Toad in a London animated 3D jointly by DreamWorks and British Studio Aardman. And finally, review for fans of Natalie Wood (the Maria in "west side story"), "Fever in the blood", a large mélo of Elia Kazan.

Always on display

To complete the collection: "Casino Royale", twenty and first James Bond and decision-making role, as told in the Opera, Daniel Craig, little elegant but very "physical". To dream of the interconnections of the fates in the world: "Babel", beautiful choral film of brilliant Mexican Alejandro Gonzales Inaritu, which takes US from Morocco to the Japan through the Mexico. For laughs where the lack of love and solitude, "Hearts", Alain Resnais, which brings together his favourite actors in a snowy and poetic Paris. To find the gravity of a childhood in lack of love, "libero", first very controlled film of the Italian Kim Rossi Stuart. To explore the London yesterday and today: "Scoop", police thriller malicious and with Woody Allen, "The Queen", docu-fiction exhilarating Stephen Frears behind the scenes of Buckingham and Downing Street, and "The Prestige", story of the rivalry of two magicians of Victorian England. And marvel of freshness of Marina Hands and control of Director Pascale Ferran, "Lady Chatterley", sensual, table, of the birth of love.

On the small screen

Friday: Evening John Ford, with "The prisoner of the desert" and "The infernal prosecution" (20 h 45, TCM). Saturday: "Rebecca", Hitchcock, Daphne du Maurier, with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine (23 h 50, CC Classic). Sunday: "Chinatown", novel, Polanski, with Jack Nicholson (20 h 40, Arte).