Twice in the course of writer-director Catherine Breillat’s À ma soeur!—called Fat Girl instead of To My Sister! in the States—twelve-year-old Anaïs Pingot says she hopes that her “first time” is with someone she doesn’t love. She gets her wish. When she informs the police that her assailant did not rape her, no matter what […]
Daily Archives: November 23, 2008
Mexico’s Alfonso Cuarón, whose talent for filmmaking is miniscule, has engineered a lurid, vulgar, hollow Americanized update of Great Expectations. Or, at least, of a single strand of Charles Dickens’s rich tapestry: the romantic one, in which Pip pursues from childhood on the haughty Estella, who belongs to a different world than he, the aristocratic, […]
Dennis Grunes 