For Alain Resnais, making a film that unfolds in time in a simple forward direction is an “experiment”! Mélo, from Henri Bernstein’s play, mines Resnais’s signature theme, past haunting the present and thus helping to determine future, but without constructing an intricately edited mosaic of different time elements; and in this instance the situation developing […]
Daily Archives: February 20, 2008
Casey Affleck, as reliably a good actor as brother Ben is not, stars as Patrick Kenzie, a South Boston private detective investigating the disappearance of 4-year-old Amanda McCready, along with his (in every sense) partner, Angie Gennaro. Like Clint Eastwood’s misanthropic Mystic River (2003), Gone Baby Gone is based on a novel by Dennis Lehane; […]
Dennis Grunes 