Bonnie and Clyde
[See “Entry from July 22, 2009” under “My Diary”]
[See “Entry from July 22, 2009” under “My Diary”]
Men in Black, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld from the comic book by Lowell Cunningham, is offered as a justification for weird sort of benign paranoia. The government, we are asked to believe, really knows all about the alien presence in our midst (that much is familiar) but they are keeping the knowledge of it from…
Torn between thuggery and a career as a classical pianist? You must be French. Yet this Frenchman began life as Harvey Keitel
The best that can be said about a movie that should never have been made is that it’s not so bad as might have been expected
A lovely film about an American con-man and one of his dupes who find a spooky kind of redemption in each other
Nettoyage à Sec (Dry Cleaning) by Anne Fontaine presents us with a French version of that now familiar Hollywood trope, merely gestured towards in 8mm, the capacity for sexual adventurism and even perversion in all of us. Nicole (Miou-Miou) and Jean-Marie (Charles Berling) have been married for 15 years and run a dry-cleaning establishment in…