Drama Rated PG-13
“Sentimental and old-fashioned, yes, but also vitally contemporary and terribly upsetting.
Drama Rated NR
My Euro-art alarm bells were ringing with this one, considering early word about it only highlighted certain elements: a lot of talking, purposeful obtuseness, Juliette Binoche. And while the movie has all of those things, it’s also something surprising: impossibly romantic. Directed by Iran’s Abbas Kiarostami, Certified Copy stars Binoche as a French antiques dealer
“Deeper than mere mimicry…
“…an uncomfortable combination of movie precociousness and real-world catastrophe.
“…like being caught in a barbed-wire fence of ethical dilemmas.
Drama Rated R
“What’s missing here is Almodovar’s most distinguishing characteristic: compassion.
It’s clear, very early on, we’re not in the hands of a “narrative” filmmaker. Indeed, first-time feature director Steve McQueen comes from an experimental film background, and he brings that formalistic aesthetic to bear on a story that in other, more melodramatic hands could have led to Oscar grandstanding. Hunger details the 1981 prison strikes
The end of the world, as witnessed by a manic-depressive bride. That’s a pithy way of describing Melancholia, yet the movie has a remoteness, a staginess, that doesn’t allow you to get much closer. As another piece of nihilistic provocation from Danish writer-director Lars von Trier, it’s never anything less than arresting, but always in
Even with the spanking, this is a bit of a bore. Despite its seemingly perfect match of filmmaker and subject – bodily minded director David Cronenberg and the sexually charged rise of psychoanalysis – A Dangerous Method is further evidence that movies are most interestingly about something when they aren’t so obviously about it. Based
"…manages to balance a spiritual sense of grace with the earthy eye of a here-and-now realist."
