Anaïs in Love, 2021.Directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet. Starring Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Charles Clichet, Anne Canovas, Christophe Montenez and Xavier Guelfi.SYNOPSIS:A directionless young woman becomes fascinated with the writer wife of an older man after she begins an affair with him.Earlier this year, Joachim Trier’s terrific drama The Worst Person in the […]
Movie Review – The Girl with a Bracelet (2019)
The Girl with a Bracelet, 2019.Directed by Stéphane Demoustier. Starring Melissa Guers, Roschdy Zem, Anaïs Demoustier, Annie Mercier, Chiara Mastroianni, Anne Paulicevich, Léo Moreau, Mikaël Halimi, Victoria Jadot and Paul Aïssaoui-Cuvelier.SYNOPSIS:A young woman stands trial for the murder of her best friend.Courtroom dramas on the big screen are often no more realistic than outlandish sci-fi […]
Movie Review – Eiffel (2021)
Eiffel, 2021.Directed by Martin Bourboulon. Starring Romain Duris, Emma Mackey, Pierre Deladonchamps, Armande Boulanger and Bruno Raffaelli.SYNOPSIS:As he prepares to build the monument that would define Paris, Gustave Eiffel is visited by a face from his past.I’ve never given much thought to why the Eiffel Tower is the shape that it is. But in an […]
Movie Review – The Eight Hundred (2020)
The Eight Hundred, 2020.Directed by Guan Hu. Starring Huang Zhizhong, Zhang Junyi, Du Chun, Oho Ou and Tang Yixin.SYNOPSIS:In 1937, a few hundred Chinese soldiers are tasked with defending a Shanghai warehouse from invading Japanese forces.There were many strange and unusual things about 2020 but, for movie fans, one of the most noteworthy oddities was […]
Movie Review – Bliss (2021)
Bliss, 2021.Directed by Mike Cahill. Starring Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek, Nesta Cooper, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. and Ronny Chieng.SYNOPSIS:A recently divorced man loses his job and subsequently bumps into a woman who claims that the world in which he lives is actually a simulation.The Matrix, but with Owen Wilson. That’s essentially the pitch at the heart […]
Movie Review – Two of Us (2019)
Two of Us, 2019.Directed by Filippo Meneghetti. Starring Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier, Léa Drucker, Muriel Bénazéraf, Jérôme Varanfrain and Augustin Reynes.SYNOPSIS:A lesbian couple who have kept their relationship a secret from family face a new challenge in the wake of a medical emergency, which leaves one of them non-verbal and confined to a wheelchair.One of […]
Movie Review – French Exit (2020)
French Exit, 2020.Directed by Azazel Jacobs. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Valerie Mahaffey, Imogen Poots, Danielle Macdonald, Susan Coyne and Tracy Letts.SYNOPSIS:A previously wealthy widow and her son travel to Paris with the last of their money, and the cat whose body she claims her husband occupies.Highbrow quirk is an interesting thing. From its elegantly […]
Movie Review – Les Misérables (2019)
Les Misérables, 2019.Directed by Ladj Ly. Starring Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga, Issa Perica, Al-Hassan Ly, Steve Tientcheu, Almamy Kanoute, Raymond Lopez and Jeanne Balibar.SYNOPSIS:A trio of cops patrol the streets of a troubled French neighbourhood, only for an interaction with some local teenagers to go south in a hurry.Perhaps unfairly, I went into […]
Movie Review – The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019)
The Ground Beneath My Feet, 2019.Directed by Marie Kreutzer. Starring Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger and Mavie Hörbiger.SYNOPSIS:A woman devoted to her high-pressure career sees her life unravel as she struggles to deal with the ongoing troubles of her schizophrenic sister and worries she might be suffering from mental illness as well.Cinema loves protagonists struggling to […]
Movie Review – Who You Think I Am (2019)
Who You Think I Am, 2019.Directed by Safy Nebbou. Starring Juliette Binoche, François Civil, Nicole Garcia, Guillaume Gouix, Charles Berling and Marie-Ange Casta.SYNOPSIS:A divorced woman constructs a fake Facebook profile in order to check up on a lover and strikes up a relationship with a young photographer.Catfish stories are nothing new on the big screen. […]
