Nearly every scene in Emma., the latest adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about a selfish young woman who sees the error of her meddling ways, looks as if it would be as at home in an Instagram feed as it is on the big screen. All cotton-candy pastels and effortless style, director Autumn de ...
Archives for February 2020
Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
There's a moment in Portrait of a Lady on Fire, filmmaker Céline Sciamma's exquisite new film, when painter Marianne (Noémie Merlant) gives up on an early attempt to capture the likeness of her subject, Héloïse (Adèle Haenel). She's been commissioned to paint the young woman as a way of ...
Review: Corpus Christi
Believe it or not, there were other films besides Parasite nominated for this year's International Feature Film Academy Award; even though the Korean film stole the show (and the most Oscars that night), four other films were vying for the one award of the night given to the country that submits the ...
Review: And Then We Danced
Set in the world of Georgian folk dancing, with its sharp, deliberate choreography and percussion-driven rhythms, And Then We Danced is the story of Mareb (Levan Gelbakhiani), a promising young performer determined to join the national troupe if he can navigate family drama, personal injury and more ...
Review: The Assistant
Though it grapples with a distinctly American scandal—that of the #MeToo movement in the movie industry—Kitty Green’s The Assistant comes off as surprisingly European in its observational, detail-oriented approach. As it follows a day in the life of the assistant of the title, played by ...