Aparna Sen, an actress beginning in her teens (Satyajit Ray’s Teen Kanya, 1961, Days and Nights in the Forest, 1969), herself became a filmmaker in the 1980s. Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, which Sen wrote (from a story by Dulal Dey) and directed, is a charming, unusually powerful romance in which a young Hindu mother on […]
Daily Archives: September 15, 2009
“Nobody’s as good as Bette when she’s bad” — promotion for this film Although she hated it, Bette Davis gives an astounding performance—rich, alert, finely modulated, beautifully balancing selfishness and an aching desire for a better life so that neither exists to justify the other—as Rosa Moline, the restless wife of a Wisconsin mill town […]
Pre-title, a threadbare kitchen is glaringly lit by a naked lightbulb. In the foreground, two men sit facing each other at table. On the left, the older man, light shining off his naked brow, silently faces down the younger man, who, underneath a hat, is submerged in darkness. The man on the right is under […]
Dennis Grunes 