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An interesting and engaging adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel which might even signal a wider cultural turning away from the liberationist view of sexual passion
A bleak portrait of the still-primitive mountain society of the Ozarks but one notable for a remarkable character-study of its heroine
Another slow moving film about an encounter between Japan and the West in which two things happen — two more than in Oscar nominated Lost in Translation
It is unfortunate for Stephen Frears’s The Van, based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, that it is coming out at a time when the economies not only of most of the countries where it will be seen but even that of perennially down-on- its-luck Ireland, where the film is set, are booming. The careful…
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You have to start watching right at the beginning of La Cérémonie, Claude Chabrol’s latest addition to one of the oddest and most compelling bodies of cinematic work in the world. Why does the maid, Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire), answer the questions of her would-be employer, Catherine Lelièvre (Jacqueline Bisset) in that odd way? Why is…
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