Pierre Blaise, who would die in a road accident shortly after the release of this film, plays Lucien, a teenaged boy whose coming-of-age battles his political indifference, sadistic streak, lack of any understanding of human nature, and lack of inquisitiveness. As the course of the war turns against the Germans in the summer of 1944, […]
Daily Archives: October 20, 2007
Sixteen years after he wrote asking the Carthusian order for permission to film a documentary in the Grande Chartreuse in the French Alps, Philip Gröning spent six months in the monastery, observing and filming. He has written, produced, directed, cinematographed and edited Die Große Stille. It’s an absorbing movie—a better one, perhaps, than Gröning might […]
A curiously depressed Gallic comedy, La confusion des genres centers on a bachelor in his forties who, bisexual, finally has a yen to settle down. Alain (Pascal Greggory, excellent) is lonely. Alain is sexually involved with his senior partner in their law firm, Laurence, whom he has impregnated and with Babette, the girlfriend of a […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Asian Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis “Subu” Ogata is an illegal artist, a skinflickmeister making two films a day, who reasons he is making a valuable social contribution. (Discussions amongst […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Asian Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis An early twentieth-century Japanese folklorist of Irish and Greek descent, Lafcadio Hearn wrote the “strange tales” that Masaki Kobayashi’s Kaidan samples. This tense, spooky, […]
Dennis Grunes 