In 1946, following Soviet victory in the Second World War, Josef Stalin invited emigrés to return to Russia—which they exited as far back as the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—ostensibly to help the nation rebuild. Those who took up the offer were almost all imprisoned or executed. The principal shortcoming of Est-Ouest, which Régis Wargnier directed from […]
Daily Archives: June 18, 2009
There is a point in the Seine underneath a bridge where “Bluebeard,” the serial killer who is terrorizing Paris, especially its young women, and whose identity is unknown, drops in darkness the corpses of his strangled victims. The matte-shot—a sketch of the bridge is visually meshed with a studio tank shot—reeks of artificiality and reality, […]
Dennis Grunes 