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 […]
Movie Review – Mr Malcolm’s List (2022)
Mr Malcolm’s List, 2022. Directed by Emma Holly Jones. Starring Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Freida Pinto, Zawe Ashton, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Theo James, Naoko Mori and Ashley Park. SYNOPSIS: In the high society of 1800s London, an eligible bachelor with a list of requirements for his future wife looks set to get a rude awakening when a woman […]
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 […]
Movie Review – The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
The Last Letter from Your Lover, 2021. Directed by Augustine Frizzell. Starring Felicity Jones, Shailene Woodley, Callum Turner, Nabhaan Rizwan, Joe Alwyn, Diana Kent and Ben Cross. SYNOPSIS: When a journalist finds a love letter while searching her newspaper’s archive, she delves back into the past and uncovers the story of a passionate affair with […]
Movie Review – Chemical Hearts (2020)
Chemical Hearts, 2020. Directed by Richard Tanne. Starring Austin Abrams, Lili Reinhart, Sarah Jones, Kara Young, Coral Peña and C.J. Hoff. SYNOPSIS: The editor of a high school newspaper bonds with a new student who was injured in an accident. There’s no shortage of movies about the awkwardness of first love. Some douse the entire […]
Movie Review – Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019. Directed by Céline Sciamma. Starring Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel and Luàna Bajrami. SYNOPSIS: A painter hired to produce a portrait of a wealthy lady before she is married falls in love with her subject. There’s a scene early on in Céline Sciamma’s desperately romantic, sensory lesbian love story […]
