Posts Tagged ‘Isabelle Huppert’
Film Review – Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Well, isn’t this just lovely? Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) is so sweet and endearing that it borders on a fairy tale. Perhaps it is. Based on Paul Gallico’s novel, the film takes an everyday person and whisks them off into a fantasy world. This is…
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Film Review – Greta
Greta (2018) is a nasty bit of fun. Directed and co-written by Neil Jordan (with Ray Wright) this is the story of a young woman named Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) who – almost by accident – befriends an older woman named Greta (Isabelle Huppert). But…
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Film Review – Elle
Paul Verhoeven’s new film Elle, starts with a rape. It is both graphic and horrifying, so if you are unable to watch that sort of thing, this might not be the movie for you. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the role of…
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Film Review – Things to Come
Isabelle Huppert brilliantly holds together Things to Come a confounding yet still fascinating film. Director Mia Hansen-Løve has a style that is hard to pin down. She likes to create as much real life as she can in her films that sometimes leads to me…
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Film Review – Amour
Even without context, the opening moments of Michael Haneke’s Amour are among the most harrowing and unforgettable he’s ever put on screen. That may seem daunting for those familiar with his previous work (Funny Games and Caché among others), but there’s a poignancy here that…
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Episode 206 – DVD Rundown 11-20-2012
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for November 20th, 2012. In this episode they discuss Game of Thrones, The Expendables 2, Heaven’s Gate, and Tarantino XX.
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Bird Watching – Claire Denis’s “White Material”
Here is what I did immediately upon finishing the film White Material (2009), from French director Claire Denis: I started it over. This was a film that was at once so absorbing and so disorienting that I had to go through it again to feel…
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