High Life
In High Life (2018) filmmaker Claire Denis uses the science fiction genre to deal with human themes in the abstract. As a space ship of convicts hurdles towards a black… Read more »
Tag: Juliette Binoche
Je vous salue, Marie
Jean-Luc Godard’s Je vous salue, Marie (1985) adapts that brief portion of The Gospel According To St. Matthew dealing with the Immaculate Conception. Godard omits the contents of the second… Read more »
Ghost In The Shell
2017 wasn’t the best year in Scarlett Johansson’s career. Aside from appearing in the critically derided Rough Night, Johansson also appeared as the lead in Rupert Sander’s live action adaptation… Read more »
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
Leos Carax’s film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) is pure Romanticism, as naïve as it is visually stunning, often suspending all believability and reality in favor of sequences that are representative… Read more »
Trois couleurs: Bleu
I am not going to comment on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Bleu in the greater context of Les Trois Couleurs. I prefer to assess one film at a time as a stand alone piece… Read more »
Rendez-vous
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 »
