Robert Rossen’s The Hustler is a film of cheap effects. For me, the low point of Rossen’s mise-en-scène arrives when the thugs take Eddie behind the frosty screen and break his thumbs. Oh, really? Why take him behind the screen? After all, the thugs don’t know that a camera is there watching them. The answer […]
Daily Archives: August 23, 2007
Jean-Louis Trintignant is terrific as Jean-Louis, an unmarried engineer in his mid-30s, who knows his ideal woman when he sees her. Writer-director Eric Rohmer’s brilliant Ma nuit chez Maud opens with him in contemplation over a balcony on a Sunday morning; a sporadically devout Roman Catholic, should he attend Mass when what is really drawing […]
Dennis Grunes 