I detest Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), which assaults us with its grotesque cruelties however much it meant for this to reflect on the barbarism of Nazis and Nazism. Alas, I postponed seeing Bruno Dumont’s Flandres, despite its winning the Grand Prix at Cannes, because American reviewers […]
Daily Archives: August 27, 2009
The episodes of writer-director Eric Rohmer’s lovely 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle involve two characters whose ethical judgments contrast: country girl Reinette and Parisian Mirabelle. In “The Blue Hour” the two meet and befriend each other in the country, where Reinette attempts to introduce the city girl, so used to noise, to the moment […]
Dennis Grunes 