The third of the five films in François Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel cycle, Baisers volés picks up on Antoine, now in his early twenties, as he is let out of the brig (for going AWOL repeatedly) and kicked out of the service. His first stop of freedom: a brothel—not just for the sex but also to […]
Daily Archives: November 25, 2007
Please see paragraph #11 of my piece on Truffaut’s The Bride Wore Black, filed under “film reviews.”
From Émile Zola’s novel L’Assomoir, Gervaise takes place in a nineteenth-century Parisian working-class neighborhood. Their gray, dilapidated, circumscribed existence makes inhabitants accomplices to one another’s dreams, but also the jealous inhibitors and ambushers of these dreams. Disappointments deepen capacities to behave recklessly against oneself and others. Environment feeds disappointments, which in turn tighten the environment’s […]
The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Herod’s Law: Fuck people over before they fuck with you. Luis Estrada’s brutal, brilliant […]
The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis In Argentina, the disparity between rich and poor is deepened by a global economy […]
Dennis Grunes 