I can’t think of any movie I would want to see three times back-to-back. But that is a little like viewing The Last Duel. It is supposed to be a story told from different points of view, but since the versions are not all that different from one another, the effect is repetitiousness. Why am I seeing the same […]
The film opens with Oscar winner Binoche (Clouds of Sils Maria) lying naked on the bed, then we realize she is “engaged”. Let the Sun Shine In isn’t so much about sex as it is a middle-aged woman desperately trying to find the love of her life. Sounds like Bridget Jones, right? Similar films were
Stanley Tucci is most known for his memorable supporting characters whether beside Meryl Streep or voicing animated figures with that unmistakable voice. However, Tucci steps behind the camera for the fifth time as writer/director on Final Portrait. He explores the final days of eccentric artistic Alberto Giacometti and his not-too-profound relationship with subject James Lord,
Here is a film that is constructed entirely around a dinner scene that speaks volumes about the class system. In the previews, this dinner party scene is set up like a Notting Hill or Love Actually moment. Madame, with a short running time of 90 swift minutes and peculiar alternating point of views, fail to
Olivier Assayas’s follow-up to Clouds of Sils Maria begins like any formulaic horror movie; Young girl in a dark, secluded, old house by herself. Personal Shopper is anything but formulaic as Assayas reteams with Stewart juggling narratives in this genre bending thriller/drama/horror film. Stewart is fascinating to watch, as always, whether cursing on SNL, breaking
France choose “the other” Isabelle Huppert film Elle, as their countries official foreign language submission to the Academy Awards. I can see why now, not that I think either film was the countries strongest choice (The Innocents by Anne Fontaine was much stronger). Between the two films, one a thriller, this one a procedural drama,
Comedies at SXSW are really hit and miss for me. We’ll Never Have Paris is from the mind, and unfortunate the true story of actor, writer, director Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory) and his wife and co-director Jocelyn Towne. Right off the bat I noticed that Helberg’s performance and the way the story is