Produced & Directed by Charles Evans Jr. Released by Variance Films USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13 The current demonization of Wall Street may have helped trigger the current protest movement, but there’s an even more hated entity in the minds of most Americans: Big Tobacco. Cigarette companies are the most egregious example of corporate […]
Written & Directed by Cédric Klapisch Produced by Bruno Levy Released by Sundance Selects English & French with English subtitles France. 109 min. Not rated With Karin Viard & Gilles Lellouche
Cédric Klapisch’s boisterous films cram many characters and storylines into two (or so) hours. His last effort, Paris, was even more kaleidoscopic than usual, with […]
Produced & Directed by Cyril Tuschi Released by Kino Lorber Films
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English, Russian & German with English subtitles; Germany. 111 min. Not rated For anyone who’s followed the past decade’s political events in Russia even slightly, the documentary Khodorkovsky won’t be very […]
Directed by Xavier Durringer Produced by Eric & Nicholas Altmayer Written by Patrick Rotman & Durringer Released by Music Box Films French with English subtitles France. 105 min. Not rated With Denis Podalydès, Florence Pernel, Bernard Le Coq, Hippolyte Girardot & Samuel Labarthe Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election as French president was a triumph for the […]
Written & Directed by Angelina Maccarone Produced by Gerd Haag, Serge Lalou, Michael Trabitzsch & Charlotte Uzu Released by Kino Lorber French with English subtitles Germany/France. 94 min. Not rated With Charlotte Rampling, Paul Auster, Peter Lindbergh & Jurgen Teller In her intriguing documentary about the eponymous British actress, director Angelina Maccarone employs an ingenious […]
Directed by Philipp Stölzl Written by Philipp Stölzl, Müller & Alexander Dydyna Produced by Christoph Müller & Helge Sasse Released by Music Box Films In German with English subtitles; Germany. 102 mins. Not rated With Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, Moritz Bleibtreu & Volker Bruch The opening scene of Young Goethe in Love is a […]
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar Produced by Agustin Almodóvar & Esther García Written by Pedro Almodóvar & Agustin Almodovar, based on the novel Mygale by Thierry Jonquet Released by Sony Pictures Classics Spanish with English subtitles Spain. 115 min. Rated R With Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes & Jan Cornet In his stylish psychological thriller-cum-horror […]
Written & Directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern Produced by Jean-Pierre Guerin Released by Olive Films French with English subtitles France. 92 min. Not rated With Gérard Depardieu, Yolande Moreau, Isabelle Adjani & Miss Ming
At this point in his storied career, it’s difficult to see Gérard Depardieu on screen as anyone other than international […]
If the comedy goes down more smoothly and cheerfully than it should, it’s primarily due to Fabrice Luchini, who has great chemistry with his two leading ladies.
