Tagged: charlotte gainsbourg
It’s thirteen minutes before any words are spoken in I Think We’re Alone Now but, by that time, we already know all we need to about the film’s main character, his world, and how he sees his role in it. If...
For those of us unfamiliar with the finer points of thermodynamics, entropy can be understood as a lack of order or predictability or as an expression of randomness or lack of information in a system. In a random universe in...
It’s rarely a bad idea to begin a discussion of a film – particularly a French film, particularly an Arnaud Desplechin film – with a word from Godard. Writing in 1950, he posted, “At the cinema, we do not think,...
There comes a moment in Tomas Alfredson’s The Snowman in which a man is faced with his own failings, particularly towards his ex-girlfriend and her son. He quietly says, “They deserved better.” I found myself thinking something similar as I...
