Then Playing — Water Lilies; Sunday Best; The Talented Mr. Ripley
Reviews of films directed by Céline Sciamma, Sacha Jenkins, and Anthony Minghella Continue reading Then Playing — Water Lilies; Sunday Best; The Talented Mr. Ripley
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Top Ten Movies of 2021 — Number Five
Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman is made with a refined elegance so pristine that it can give the impression that the filmmaker simply landed upon it, despite ample evidence that painstaking craft was employed. For instance, the film is reliant on … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2021 — Number Five
Now Playing — Petite Maman
The core conceit of Petite Maman emerges with gentle grace. A young family — mother, father, eight-year-old daughter — returns to a childhood home to clear out the belongings of a recently deceased relative. It is a somber affair, but … Continue reading Now Playing — Petite Maman
Then Playing — Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Judy; For Sama
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019). Set near the close of the eighteenth century, Céline Sciamma’s achingly refined, French drama is about a female artist (Noémie Merlant) who is recruited to surreptitiously paint the portrait of a … Continue reading Then Playing — Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Judy; For Sama
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