It’s always reassuring to see a nutty director go straight. Austria’s Michael Haneke is famous for his lurid, violent and thoroughly sick exercises in torture and sexual depravity. Wait a sec. Did I say famous? Only to the occasional film festival audience. The public has avoided him like a dose of swine flu. Who sat Read More
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Running time: 95 minutes
Directed by: Joachim Lafosse
Written by: Joachim Lafosse and François Pirot
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jérémie Renier, Yannick Renier, Kris Kuppens
Joachim Lafosse’s Private Property, from a screenplay by Mr. Lafosse and François Pirot (in French with English subtitles) fades out with an end-scrawled mocking dedication to Read More
Hey, things are looking good and weird out there! This fall brings Bebe Neuwirth in a surreal textual experiment, Isabelle Huppert in a suicidal frenzy, Patti LuPone hauling around a tuba, and talking sea creatures from the deep. Plus? Snoopy’s dead, man!
After her delectable and hilarious turn as Clarice in Silence! The Musical, Jenn Read More
Hey, things are looking good and weird out there! This fall brings Bebe Neuwirth in a surreal textual experiment, Isabelle Huppert in a suicidal frenzy, Patti LuPone hauling around a tuba, and talking sea creatures from the deep. Plus? Snoopy’s dead, man!
After her delectable and hilarious turn as Clarice in Silence! The Musical, Read More
Benoît Jacquot’s The School of Flesh ( L’École de la Chair ), from a screenplay by Jacques Fieschi, based on the novel by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), contains, among many other treasures, the most exquisitely accomplished and subtly nuanced performance of Isabelle Huppert’s illustrious career. Her Dominique in The School of Flesh dominates almost every frame Read More
