Films that depict communal religious life with nuance and sympathy are rare, and those that probe without cliché the relationships, communal and familial, between women are rarer still. So why… Continue reading "Vision (von Trotta, 2009)"
Day one of the Toronto International Film Festival got off to a spectacular start with Lone Scherfig’s direction of a Nick Hornby script. I’ve posted some comments at The Christianity… Continue reading "An Education (Scherfig, 2009)"
To call Lake of Fire uncompromisingly sober is to call a roundhouse kick to the kidney bracing.
A lot of films can break your heart--a precious few can enlarge and renovate it.
When you judge a movie as cultural artifact or sociopolitical argument, I guess, you often come away with the impression that it is better or worse than its record indicates.
