Charlotte Rampling
Film Review: Echoes of Passion — Arnaud Desplechin’s “Two Pianos” Plays on the Keys of Loss and Love
Here’s a drama that explores with uncommon pathos the ways that people confront—with grace or with fury—what they’re compelled to give up.
Jim Jarmusch’s films resist cliches and conventional dramatic formulas — understatement is the rule.
“Father Mother Sister Brother” invites you into a space of present-ness where you need to slow down and re-set your metabolism. It invites you to tune out all the noise and sit with the silences between people. A daring ask in a digital world where everyone’s glued to their screens the better to pick up the noise.
Red Sparrow isn’t great in any way, but, at two hours and twenty minutes, we do get our money’s worth of old-school genre entertainment.
In a period of comic book action dribble, 45 Years shows the world that films can probe reality, with enormous beauty and depth.
Arts Commentary: The Nelsons Case