“Oh, look at me, I’m dying,” says Shark, “who” has been scalded (and by a proletarian); “My body is all broken and beaten up.” We hear Shark’s defeated voiceover. Shark is a dog. Moscow; post-Revolution, mid-1920s. Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazhensky, whose surgical procedures have involved organ transplants from animals to humans, now seeks to “rejuvenate” […]
Daily Archives: September 10, 2009
Anouk Aimée reprises her greatest role, as Cécile, professionally, Lola, in Jacques Demy’s English-language Model Shop. We catch up with her nine years after Lola in a seedy, forlorn part of Los Angeles, not in Nantes, where more of her life seemed to lie ahead. Now her marriage to Michel, once part of her future, […]
Dennis Grunes 