Reviews

There’s indeed a lot of “tree” in Julie Bertuccelli’s bluntly titled film. They seem to factor somehow into practically every exquisitely composed frame, and certain segments appear as if filmed from their perspective. Even the title song features the…

Hooked on classics, Catherine Breillat takes another fairytale for a spin, and her first step in reexamining the story of Sleeping Beauty is a logical one: what the heck did the unconscious princess dream about all that time? Her…

Thanks to Paul Haggis’s remake, The Next Three Days, Fred Cavayé’s 2008 debut feature, Anything for Her, remains unseen by U.S. audiences. But fortunately the French writer-director’s follow-up, Point Blank, will hit theaters before its inevitable Hollywood makeover, a…

Lucas Belvaux’s chilly new film—the title is French for “kidnapping”—is based on the 1978 case of Edouard-Jean Empain, a French-Belgian industrialist who was seized and held for two months. After aggressive police action, Empain was released without any ransom…