Tagged: catherine deneuve
Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale is a mix of emotions, personalities, soundtracks, powerful performances, and filmmaking tricks that masterfully encapsulates the cacophony that results from a reunion of so many people with so much baggage. Desplechin’s aesthetic keeps the audience constantly unsettled,...
Hirokazu Koreeda, having achieved consistent success in his home country of Japan and taken the global stage by storm with last year’s Shoplifters, has broadened his view to the west, as many Asian directors of great renown tend to –...
It would be irresponsibly chronocentric to look at Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour and find its kinky sexual frankness shocking for its era. This was the 60s and this was France; it’s likely few were shocked. But, still, it feels...
In the more than 50 years since the release of Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, some things have changed a lot and some things seemingly not at all. Just in the past couple years alone, many of us men have finally begun to...
Title: Un Flic (A Cop) Year: 1972 Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Cast: Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna, Paul Croucher, Riccardo Cucciolla Synopsis: Police commissioner Edouard (Delon) is on the trail of a ruthless bank robber and drug trafficker. Meanwhile, he...
Title: Dancer in the Dark Year: 2000 Director: Lars Von Trier Cast: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Udo Kier Synopsis: Selma, a Czech immigrant, works in a factory to pay for her son’s eye surgery while...
