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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…

This well-made French film by Cédric Kahn re-examines the relationship between civilization and savagery. Again.

Dominique Deruddere’s Everybody’s Famous! (Iedereen Beroemd! in his native Flemish) is a rather charming little movie, though without enough of a sense of detachment from the dream of pop music fame which it otherwise makes fun of. Some will say it is condescending, but I don’t think it condescending enough, at least in this sense….

Another brilliantly funny episode in the lives of a cheese-eating inventor and his dog

Ridley Scott has produced a masterpiece about men in battle. As you might expect, The New York Times hated it.

Enough, already! We know that movie folk are compassionate people. Why do they have to keep making Holocaust dramas to persuade us of the fact?