Mission: Impossible
With Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part I (2023) out everyone is talking about Tom Cruise and his stunts. At some point after John Woo’s ill-fated outing in the franchise Tom Cruise… Read more »
Tag: Emmanuelle Béart
Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud
Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995) was the last film that the renowned filmmaker Claude Sautet ever made. The film tells the story of a young woman, Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), whose… Read more »
Nathalie…
I saw Les Innocentes (2016) when it came out and now having seen Nathalie…(2003) as well I am convinced that writer/director Anne Fontaine deserves more serious attention, at least here… Read more »
Les Témoins
Les Témoins (2007) is André Téchiné at his most politically powerful. The film addresses the systematic homophobia that swept France in the wake of the AIDs outbreak of 1984. Téchiné… Read more »
Un cœur en hiver
Un cœur en hiver (1992) was Claude Sautet’s penultimate film. With this and Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995) Sautet had reached the pinnacle of his powers as a filmmaker. Sautet’s… Read more »
J’embrasse pas
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 »
Histoire de Marie et Julien
There has been a lot of discussion around Rivette’s films lately, a kind of renewed interest or mass discovery by a new generation. Lincoln Center recently hosted a parallel retrospective… Read more »
