In her twenties, Adelaide-born Ann Turner took the top prize at the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival for her absorbing, intermittently terrifying debut feature from Australia, Celia. Celia (Rebecca Smart, convincing), when the film begins, is eight; she discovers her cherished grandmother dead in bed one morning, and this sparks nightmares of some enormous monster—all […]
Daily Archives: March 21, 2009
On the list that I’m preparing of the 100 greatest films from France, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland, at least one film by Claire Denis is assured a place: Friday Night (2004). I also love Beau travail (1999) and Trouble Every Day (2001), one of the three or four most brilliant vampire movies ever made; and […]
Dennis Grunes 