Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1974) opens with a police lieutenant (Jean-Louis Trintignant) arriving at a crime scene to interview a young woman (Anicée Alvina) suspected of murder. When the policeman… Read more »
Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Trans-Europ-Express (1966) applies the filmmaker’s Nouveau roman formal experiments onto the crime film as a means of parodying the genre as well as the filmmaking process itself. Of… Read more »
J’embrasse pas (1991) is the culmination, in many respects, to a long meditation on the psychological turmoil of youth, a meditation that has undergone a number of revisions from film… Read more »
Rendez-vous (1986) is relatively early in both Juliette Binoche and Andre Téchiné’s careers. Binoche had yet to develop the kind of kinetic energy she would while working with Leos Carax… Read more »
“If only he had realized all his ideas, he could have become one of the greatest.”-Sergio Leone Sergio Corbucci has long-lived in the shadow of Sergio Leone. One cannot read… Read more »