Le Diable probablement is another “anatomy of a suicide” by writer-director Robert Bresson. Twenty-year-old Charles pursues a seemingly aimless course to an end of his devising in Père Lachaise Cemetery. (Stupidly, a psychoanalyst tells Charles how he can overcome his aversion to suicide!) Because it touches on the state of the world (its Parisian student […]
Daily Archives: April 12, 2008
The 1917 October Revolution did not settle smoothly into Russia; in 1919 civil war pitted the Bolshevik victors against counterrevolutionaries, the Reds and the Whites. The first decade of sound had already produced an outstanding film about the Russian Civil War: Chapaev (1934), by the (unrelated) team of Sergei and Georgy Vasiliev. My iz Kronshtadta […]
