“You know, you’re Irish, so when I’m saying Dédalus you’re probably thinking Joyce.” It’s early December in Avelino and Arnaud Desplechin isn’t really talking  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The French director’s latest, Spectateurs!, reintroduces the […]

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Even in its darkest moments, Secret Sunshine transforms its tragedy with laughs while the comic situations always carry an unshakably tragic subtext, all of which serves to enrich Lee’s elegant visual style by way of story and performance.

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French cinema is alive and well in 2008 (Ryan Werner, rejoice!), as evidenced by several high profile releases that have made their way into American theaters: Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale, Laurent Cantet’s The Class, Guillame Canet’s Tell No One, […]

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