Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)

As Enchanted April showed a few years ago, Italy is the promised land for the cold, sexually-repressed, work- obsessed Englishman or, more likely, Englishwoman. At least it is for the English who imagine themselves as having been kitted out by their climate or their religion or their national character with such a load of what…

They just don’t make cads the way they used to

Alice et Martin, directed and co-written by André Techiné, is an unconventional romance of a type that the French are so good at, but it is also a complex psychological drama which, I think, loses itself in its own complexities. At the level of the cinematic or dramatic detail it is a fine film. The…

A bleak portrait of what remains of love and romance in a world without hope and without a future

A glib and unpersuasive attempt to identify the primitive and savage “other” with the super-rich

What’s on tonight, honey? The end of the world? Not again!