Brief Encounter

A paean to tough women is perhaps not the best way of exploring feminine vulnerabilities, but a portrait of a psycho-bitch is always something that will find a market.

An austerely beautiful film by the Anglo-Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski that could hardly be a greater departure from his earlier My Summer of Love

An amusing fantasy that starts interestingly but then fizzles out

Beyond Silence, directed by Caroline Link, is one of those tremendously worthy films that deal with handicap and that one had better not say anything bad about because of their great sensitivity and caring. But they illustrate a saying of George Lucas, the director of Star Wars etc, that “emotionally involving the audience is easy….

Roman Polanski makes a political movie for the people — unfortunately, there are a lot of them, particularly in Europe — whose politics are just like his

It’s not easy, being human. The older you get the more you understand this. It doesn’t get any harder, necessarily, but at some point, usually in middle age, you realize how hard it has been all along. Agnès Jaoui’s delightful film, Le Goût des Autres or The Taste of Others is about such an epiphany…