“Who are you?” Valentine Dussaut (Irène Jacob, incandescent), a young model, asks Joseph Kern, a much older man she wonders about. His answer, “A retired judge,” tells her what she already knows. Is he more than that? The conclusion of a trilogy, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s last film, Trois couleurs: Rouge, takes as its principal motif the […]
Daily Archives: November 24, 2008
A softspoken family saga, Ettore Scola’s La famiglia never strays from a well-upholstered house in Rome. Although the “central character” may be the extended family itself, we generally attend to Carlo; the film begins with his baptism in 1906, at which point he is an infant in his grandfather’s arms, and ends with him at […]
I have just added the following entry to my list of the 100 greatest films of all time: In 1958, Japan renegotiated its 1952 treaty ending U.S. occupation, whose original terms had impressed Japanese youth with a sense of futility, radicalizing them. Many felt the new security terms, which strengthened Japan’s alliance with the U.S., […]
