Raiders of the Lost Ark
[See “Entry from August 08, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from August 08, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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Liv Ullmann’s direction of the screenplay of her former director, “mentor” and lover, Ingmar Bergman in Faithless (Trolösa), is remarkably competent—remarkably Bergmanian—in all kind of technical ways, but I wonder if she was fully alive to the subtleties built into this story of a broken marriage? For that matter, I wonder if Bergman himself is?…
A fantastical satire against bureaucracy whose real-world target is less than immediately recognizable
Mira Sorvino is the only triumphant thing about this inept adaptation of a Marivaux play.
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