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The Passengers of the Night exists pointedly where movies must reflexively, somewhere between real life and a dream. It begins on the night of the 1981 presidential election, electing France’s first Socialist president, but Elisabeth (Charlotte Gainsbourg) has more immediate...
Michel Franco’s Sundown opens with a shot of a gasping fish out of water. It’s upsetting in its casualness, a matter-of-fact gaze at the world’s capacity for cruel indifference. It’s also more than a tad obvious, which makes it an...
Without a doubt, the coolest thing in Benoît Jacquot’s Suzanna Andler, after Charlotte Gainsbourg, is the quality of the light. I mean that literally. Despite its late spring/early summer setting, the sunshine looks downright cold. Gainsbourg, even with her slight...
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...
