Home: What is it? Is it where you come from, to which you try with all your might to return? Or is it your destiny, to find which you must go somewhere else? One of the most beautiful and mysterious Russian films of the post-Soviet era, Chamane does not disclose the full import of its […]
Daily Archives: June 9, 2008
Apart from Beauty and the Beast (1946), which is in a class by itself, Les parents terribles, which he adapted from his own play, is Jean Cocteau’s finest film. A highly versatile, intricately designed use of camera indeed makes it exemplary as a cinematic rendering of a play, one that is almost entirely restricted to […]
In a plum role, Jean-Pierre Léaud (best actor, Thessaloniki Film Festival) is brilliantly funny, irascible, devious, cruel, self-absorbed and sweetly melancholy as Nicolas Gardinier, a disbarred Parisian attorney/house-husband who discovers that his wife, Alice (beauteous Italian-born Ornella Muti), is having an affair with a sports journalist. Alice doesn’t know that her husband knows. Assuming another […]
Dennis Grunes 