Sensitive, engrossing, Rodolphe Marconi’s Le dernier jour deconstructs a teen suicide. Marconi carefully details the train of events that lead Simon (Gaspard Ulliel, superb), an 18-year-old art student, to commit the violent act against himself with which the film opens. This overdetermined act is the result of numerous blows to Simon’s fragile identity, all of […]
Daily Archives: June 2, 2007
All About Eve, which won the 1950 best picture Oscar and the identical prizes of the New York film critics and the British film academy, has few detractors, and a good many people place it among the greatest American films. Joseph L. Mankiewicz won Oscars for both writing and directing it, just as he won […]
Dennis Grunes 