Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s L’Enfant ( The Child), from their own screenplay (in French with English subtitles), is the first release to appear in the city this year with more than a touch of greatness. L’Enfant was reportedly inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket (1959), though it’s more reminiscent of Read More
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s L’Enfant (The Child), from their own screenplay (in French with English subtitles), is the first release to appear in the city this year with more than a touch of greatness. L’Enfant was reportedly inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket (1959), though it’s more reminiscent of the Read More
Seedy, sepia-tone losers struggling to survive in a Depression-era Hollywood of foggy alleys, rumpled bed linens, rat-infested palm trees, Jean Harlow cars and saloons with noxious sunshine bleeding through dirty Venetian blinds like Edward Hopper paintings: The images alone in Caleb Deschanel’s muted cinematography should make Ask the Dust something special in the junkyard of Read More
