“Give me some time,” Jeanne asks so she can turn a seeming military defeat into a victory against the British in the Hundred Years’ War. (She helps lift the Siege of Orléans.) Time is of the essence in Jacques Rivette’s stunning two-part, four-hour Jeanne la Pucelle. Early fifteenth century; minimalist scenes. As Sandrine Bonnaire beautifully […]
Daily Archives: August 24, 2008
In the UK Vincente Minnelli’s The Clock was known as Under the Clock, referring to a specific clock under which boy and girl meet—a revelation of British obtuseness and literalism. The Clock is all about the rush of time against which the two young persons have to fight in order to eke out their relationship […]
Jeanne Moreau, the most iconic film actress since Garbo, is gorgeous, glamorous and brilliant in Joseph Losey’s Eva. A materially fit prostitute, Eva Olivier is pathetically craved by Tyvian Jones, a Welshman who has hit paydirt as a coal miner by converting his experiences, embellished, into a novel. Eva mocks, teases, torments, threatens, even physically […]
Dennis Grunes 