Jean Gabin (best actor, Venice) is superb as Max, an aging gangster in the Montmartre district of Paris, who has convinced himself, at least, that he wishes to retire, in Jacques Becker’s razor-sharp, electrifying, ultimately wistful film noir of gangland warfare, Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot!). Gabin’s final touch of secret gaiety […]
Daily Archives: April 21, 2010
The first part of a loose trilogy of films co-written and directed by Dublin-born Jim Sheridan, all of them starring Daniel Day-Lewis (who somewhere along the way dropped the hyphen), My Left Foot finds the actor portraying the actual tormented soul Christy Brown (1932-1981), who struggled to paint and write. Born with severe cerebral palsy […]
“Don’t feel I need looking after,” Lionel tells daughter Joséphine, but he does need this and might never be prepared to set her free, although he knows he must accept that Jo will set herself free, and soon. Since the death of his wife, Jo’s German mother, Lionel and Jo have developed a life together […]
Dennis Grunes 