Postman Always Rings Twice, The

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…

A delightful and not entirely politically correct movie about growing up as a Catholic schoolgirl in 2002-2003

A mildly amusing exercise in progressive nostalgia that has been much overpraised

A great fan of Taste of Cherry, the last film by the Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami, I went to his newest, The Wind Will Carry Us with high hopes. I was not disappointed. It is an even better, more engaging and interesting, work than the other, but is recognizably by the same man. In particular,…

Here’s one for the hope chest, gals: a husband who won’t mind very much if you cheat on him

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