Because of its fusion of different time elements possibly an influence on Alain Resnais’s cinema in general and Last Year at Marienbad (1961) in particular, Jean Epstein’s piercing, haunting silent La glace à trois faces, from a story by future wartime collaborationist Paul Morand, provides a disturbing, moving portrait of an anonymous, wealthy young man […]
Daily Archives: December 25, 2009
“I am also looking for different levels of reality. . . . I’ve lived through the trauma of dealing with mental sickness in the family. I love dealing with the question of who and what is normal.” — Aparna Sen Two sisters are at the center of writer-director Aparna Sen’s delicate, fluent 15 Park Avenue, […]