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Rapid Response: L’Age d’Or
“L’Age d’Or” is a film so weird, depraved, bizarre and perverse that in 1934 it was withdrawn from circulation and not seen again for 65 years. When it was made, it had to be pitched as a madman’s...
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
“An upper-class sextet (Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran, Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Cassel) sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts repeatedly thwarted by a...
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The Exterminating Angel (1962)
“The Exterminating Angel” must be the simplest allegory film ever made. A group of wealthy individuals attend a dinner party, retire to the drawing room and then cannot bring themselves to leave. The...
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CIFF Review: Holy Motors *1/2
There’s a photographer in “Holy Motors” shooting pictures rapidly and blindly of a lifeless model dressed in gold as played by Eva Mendes. “Beauty! Beauty! Beauty,” he says in complete cartoonish...
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Rapid Response: Belle de Jour
You’re in a room debasing yourself, embracing your wild, animal nature and your behavior is completely out of your control. And somehow, you can’t bring yourself to leave, no matter how much it all...
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‘Rome, Open City’ and ‘Los Olvidados': Two Films of Pessimism and Realism
Luis Bunuel opens his 1953 film “Los Olvidados,” or “The Young and the Damned,” with a disclaimer that explains his film is true, not optimistic and leaves everything to society’s progressive forces to...
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