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A delightfully profound parable of love lost and found
When the Cat’s Away (not a very adequate translation of the French Chacun Cherche Son Chat or “Everyone’s looking for his cat”), by Cédric Klapisch, is a charmingly old-fashioned kind of film, in spite of its depiction of very contemporary social realities. It offers a marvelously undimmed romanticism about Paris, and about the glamour of…
A lightweight comedy about the role of an obscure Texas congressman in ending the Cold War is about as near to being patriotic as Hollywood allows itself to get these days
A disappointing and frankly implausible romance whose author doesn’t seem to have his heart in it
Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker is the sort of picture I would normally hate: a kind of heightened documentary that is not really, as it purports to be, straightforward interviews with four single adults in New York but rather staged interviews in which each of the subjects has been given a chance to work up…
A delightfully profound parable of love lost and found
When the Cat’s Away (not a very adequate translation of the French Chacun Cherche Son Chat or “Everyone’s looking for his cat”), by Cédric Klapisch, is a charmingly old-fashioned kind of film, in spite of its depiction of very contemporary social realities. It offers a marvelously undimmed romanticism about Paris, and about the glamour of…
A lightweight comedy about the role of an obscure Texas congressman in ending the Cold War is about as near to being patriotic as Hollywood allows itself to get these days
A disappointing and frankly implausible romance whose author doesn’t seem to have his heart in it
Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker is the sort of picture I would normally hate: a kind of heightened documentary that is not really, as it purports to be, straightforward interviews with four single adults in New York but rather staged interviews in which each of the subjects has been given a chance to work up…
A delightfully profound parable of love lost and found
When the Cat’s Away (not a very adequate translation of the French Chacun Cherche Son Chat or “Everyone’s looking for his cat”), by Cédric Klapisch, is a charmingly old-fashioned kind of film, in spite of its depiction of very contemporary social realities. It offers a marvelously undimmed romanticism about Paris, and about the glamour of…
A lightweight comedy about the role of an obscure Texas congressman in ending the Cold War is about as near to being patriotic as Hollywood allows itself to get these days
A disappointing and frankly implausible romance whose author doesn’t seem to have his heart in it
Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker is the sort of picture I would normally hate: a kind of heightened documentary that is not really, as it purports to be, straightforward interviews with four single adults in New York but rather staged interviews in which each of the subjects has been given a chance to work up…