Like boarding a flight for somewhere promising, only to be met with an emergency landing, Departures never quite reaches the emotional depth…
“Do you have any idea of what you will do with this vaginodrome?” A film director is surrounded by at least…
If an almost-three-hour is-it-spoof-is-it-not directed by a French auteur starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin sounds a bit odd, just wait until…
A confession: I am really not a fan of the French filmmaker Franoçois Ozon. He seems like a lovely chap. Literate, passionate, with…
Clothing is central here – the fashion house Saint Laurent produces. At the front door, the three discover that they’re…
Regrouting blackened bathroom tiles; filling out a commercial tax return; cleaning the mouldering leaves out of a clogged storm drain; grudgingly buying…
For those not intimately familiar with the topographical and historical minutiae of the UK, the relatively blasé way in which…
The inner lives of buildings and institutions provide an intriguing and enlivening way of looking at the modern landscape, particularly…
They Will Kill You opens with a happy family gathered around a dining table. Two young sisters stand out in the dark…
From there, he goes into seclusion in the dry Southwestern landscapes that likely remind him most of home, inadvertently retreating…