Articles de cet auteur (185)
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The barbarian invasions
In 1987, Denys Arcand’s The Decline of the American Empire was a witty and intellectual treat, a group of Canadians in middle age, assessing their lives and careers, discussing, sometimes profoundly, sometimes fatuously, their interpretation of the world, especially the American-dominated western world. But, the film was not so strong on its (...) -
The brown bunny
Is Vincent Gallo, actor and director of Buffalo 66, just self-confident or extremely self-indulgent ? This is a two hour home movie that presumes its audience wants to watch Gallo (who wrote, produced, acted as director of photography and as one of the camera operators as well as starring) in his drive across America. We see him cleaning his (...) -
Kiss of Life
A film that is both modest and ambitious. Emily Young, who also wrote the screenplay, wants to explore a London family and its relationships as well as remind us of the 90s wars in the Balkans. She also wants to explore the impact of death and dramatically speculate on possibilities of limbo and purgatorial experiences. And all within 86 (...) -
Tiresia
It helps to have some background on the classical character, Tiresias, the blind hermaphrodite prophet of Thebes, and the various legends that led to his/her being blinded. Perhaps it won’t, because many audiences will not have the patience to stay with the first half - and, if they do, and are satisfied with a forty minute section which (...) -
Le temps du loup
It helps to have some background on the classical character, Tiresias, the blind hermaphrodite prophet of Thebes, and the various legends that led to his/her being blinded. Perhaps it won’t, because many audiences will not have the patience to stay with the first half - and, if they do, and are satisfied with a forty minute section which (...)