Louis Garrel’s new feature – his second as director – will doubtlessly raise comparisons to the work his father Philippe has been churning out for at least the past decade. Like Lover for a Day, In the Shadow of Women,...
2017 will not go down as a great year in many respects, and unfortunately I cannot assert that film will run contrary to that pattern. But much of what plagued me in the political sphere and dripped into the personal...
I can hardly imagine when melodrama hasn’t excited me, nor indeed a time when it hasn’t been casually dismissed; either as an easy shorthand for emotive performance, or as a genre entirely. As the cultural pendulum has swung more and...
