Everything that is good and bad about an “art film” can be found in Eros, a meditation on desire featuring three shorts by three different directors: Hong Kong’s Wong Kar-wai, the United States’ Steven Soderbergh and Italy’s Michelangelo Antonioni. The Hand, Wong Kar-wai’s opening segment, is strictly sensual and very similar to his best-known work:

Just a single normal character would go a long way in Everything Is Illuminated, an aggressively quirky adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s hyperactively quirky novel. Both the book and the movie – which represents the directorial debut of actor Liev Schreiber – revolve around such fanciful conceits as an obsessive-compulsive Jewish-American (Elijah Wood) trying to

Writer-director Henry Jaglom, an icon of independent film, once again employs a very personal, quasi- documentary style, as he follows the intertwining, back-door negotiations involving two very different productions: a big-budget Hollywood prestige piece and an independent debut, both of which want to lure the participation of a legendary French actress. Greta Scacchi, Ron Silver,