Picture this: Chiara Mastroianni catches Milos Forman and Catherine Deneuve in flagrante delicto. Yes, indeed, a bit of selfreflexive playfulness is afoot. Mastroianni’s real-life mother (Deneuve) is playing her onscreen counterpart, while the Czech-born Forman plays…
Second only to Maus, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is the most widely read (or at least assigned) autobiographical graphic novel of all time. But as Art Spiegelman—or anyone who has been cursed with such success—can attest, generating…
Talk about going back to the well: for his directorial debut, the star of Claude Berri’s Eighties Provençal standards Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring picks another tale of the French countryside previously filmed…
André Téchiné is no Jean-Jacques Beineix (duh). But there is one curious degree of separation: cult Gallic scribe Philippe Djian wrote the books that became Beineix’s Betty Blue and Téchiné’s latest, Unforgivable. The new film’s plot…
There is a scene in Benoît Jacquot’s Farewell, My Queen in which Marie Antoinette (a haunting Diane Kruger), consumed by fear though she is warmed by a fire and seated in a room gleaming with satin…
It’s only appropriate that, for filmmakers endlessly fascinated by the refusal of settled adults to just grow up already, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, the latest from prolific fraternal duo Jay and Mark Duplass, represents something of a stylistic…
