Must See
[See “Entry from July 13, 2011” under “My Diary”]
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Just another po mo fantasy? Just another superhero movie? I’m afraid so.
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…
A remarkably watchable Anglo-Indian lesson in moral realities without any moralizing
A Western’s themes and a Western’s morality work surprisingly well among Britons of the Midlands and the lower-mid social status
It is not a particularly original or even, necessarily, interesting observation that marriage, like other symbiotic relationships, is often a matter of complementary pathologies. Or what would be pathologies if they were found in an individual. Benoit Jacquot (A Single Girl, The Disenchanted) has given us a portrait of such a marriage—and not much hope…
