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Behind the Candelabra (English Corner)
It’s 1977 and Ted (Scott Bakula) takes his lover Scott (Matt Damon) to a Liberace concert in Las Vegas. Liberace (Michael Douglas) is overflowing with his cheerful flamboyance and kitschy spectacle, and the audience of mostly older women drink it up. Scott says he can’t believe that this audience would love something “so gay,” but Ted replies, (…) -
The Lunchbox (English Corner)
Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox is like a classic Hollywood fable told through the lens of modern Mumbai. Consider this setup : Ila sends her husband a lunchbox at work. She’s hoping a special meal will spice up a dull marriage and she uses a Mumbai currier service so accurate that Harvard professors have written studies on it. And yet, inevitably, (…) -
Stop the Pounding Heart (English Corner)
Stop the Pounding Heart is a dramatic title for such a quiet, gentle, observant film. The filmmakers offer no real plot to speak of, but instead simply follow the daily life of Sara, a 14-year old girl raised on farm in Texas by a devotedly Christian family. With absolute naturalism, the film observes the details of her life : Sara going about (…) -
Un voyageur (English Corner)
Un voyageur, the autobiographical documentary by director Marcel Ophüls, is fascinating, revealing, overindulgent, slightly naïve, and utterly charming, just like the film’s director and star. Whether recalling his family’s flight from France during World War II, celebrating Barbara Stanwix legs in the The Lady Eve, or calling Michelangelo (…) -
Le Passé (English Corner)
Le Passé is another triumph for writer/director Asghar Farhadi. His last film at Cannes, A Separation (2011), opened to acclaim and went on to win the Palm d’Or and later the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. That film examined in painful and thrilling detail the dissolution of a marriage in modern Iran, along with the human and societal (…)