Thomas, an old Englishman, has been a teacher at the government-run primary school in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in the east Indian Ocean, probably since its launch thirty years earlier. It is 2004, the year an earthquake launches something else: a tsunami that kills 230,000 people, Thomas’s wife and daughter among them, and many […]
Daily Archives: February 21, 2013
Delicate and exquisite, Une aussi longue absence, Henri Colpi’s first film as director (Colpi edited Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, mon amour, 1959, and Last Year at Marienbad, 1961), is a dream of a film. From France and Italy, written by Marguerite Düras and Gérard Jarlot, it shared the top prize at Cannes with Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana. […]
Dennis Grunes 