Irreversible: Straight Cut
By Andrew Plimpton February 9, 2023
To Gaspar Noé’s credit, this edit does not feel more conventional than its predecessor. It is, however, revealing to watch, and not for reasons Noé intends.
To Gaspar Noé’s credit, this edit does not feel more conventional than its predecessor. It is, however, revealing to watch, and not for reasons Noé intends.
This frenetic and nerve-wracking movie makes the point that for many, it’s worse than a jungle out there.
In Ira Sachs’s brusquely told new film, the libido-led story line supported one of the festival’s best films.
A talky, heady, and metaphorical courtroom drama conceals depths of sadness beneath its intellectual and legalistic surface.
French actress Nathalie Boutefeu stars as Sophia Tolstoy, wife of the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, in a solo tour de force.
Director Dina Amer’s incisive and unsettling debut explores how a young French-Moroccan woman ended up becoming radicalized.
François Ozon’s film feels like a lighter version of its source material, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, less Jean Genet and more Noël Coward.
A fizzy, feel-good comedy that believes in the goodness of the human heart, even if the brain attached is a little flighty.
A moody movie for fans of Claire Denis’s more recent work, character studies with dense emotions to unpack.