Films of faith are problematic things for some of us, but I am as unbiased in this cinematic realm as in any other; Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet (1954) is among my favorite films. Polish-born Agnieszka Holland, a self-described lapsed Roman Catholic, is saddled here with a script (in part by the author) based on a […]
Daily Archives: September 6, 2007
I’m such a fan of Swiss-born, Québécoise filmmaker Léa Pool’s autobiographical Set Me Free (Emporte-moi, 1999) that I don’t know what to make of her Lost and Delirious. A boarding-school melodrama of a freshman girl’s coming-of-age and a senior’s disintegration after her first love affair goes south, the film vastly alters plot details of Susan […]
Dennis Grunes 