Theatricality is the name of the game in The Crime Is Mine — for both the characters and the actors playing them. Even when the subject is murder, penury or thwarted ambition, everyone seems to be having a blast in François Ozon’s latest. Based on a 1934 play and set in the mid-’30s, the comedy opens with the image of a red velvet stage curtain, abounds in exquisite art deco flourishes, and is propelled by a screwball zaniness that arrives as a welcome antidote to awards season’s Serious Cinema Syndrome.
Sending up celebrity, the legal system and a medley of movie tropes, Ozon has spun serious ingredients into a zesty soufflé, albeit one that doesn’t avoid a sense of deflation. Led by two relative newcomers, with colorful support from a who’s who of French movie stars — key among them Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, Dany Boon and André Dussollier...
Sending up celebrity, the legal system and a medley of movie tropes, Ozon has spun serious ingredients into a zesty soufflé, albeit one that doesn’t avoid a sense of deflation. Led by two relative newcomers, with colorful support from a who’s who of French movie stars — key among them Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, Dany Boon and André Dussollier...
- 12/20/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
La Place d’une autre Review — La Place d’une autre (2021) Film Review from the 74th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a film directed by Aurelia Georges, and starring Lyna Khoudri, Sabine Azema, Maud Wyler, Laurent Poitrenaux, Jacques Bachelier, Amelie Belohradsky, Agnes Bourgeois, Olivier Broche, Bruno Dreyfurst, Sarah Gendrot-Krauss, Jacques Bruckmann, Marie Hattermann, Naton Goetz, [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: LA Place D’Une Autre: An Excellent, Well Acted Story of Mistaken Identity [Locarno 2021]...
- 8/12/2021
- Film-Book
La Place d’une autre Review — La Place d’une autre (2021) Film Review from the 74th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a film directed by Aurelia Georges, and starring Lyna Khoudri, Sabine Azema, Maud Wyler, Laurent Poitrenaux, Jacques Bachelier, Amelie Belohradsky, Agnes Bourgeois, Olivier Broche, Bruno Dreyfurst, Sarah Gendrot-Krauss, Jacques Bruckmann, Marie Hattermann, Naton Goetz, [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: LA Place D’Une Autre: An Excellent, Well Acted Story of Mistaken Identity [Locarno 2021]...
Continue reading: Film Review: LA Place D’Une Autre: An Excellent, Well Acted Story of Mistaken Identity [Locarno 2021]...
- 8/12/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
by Tim Brayton
Last week, we took a look at Loving Vincent, a stunningly gorgeous animated feature taking its aesthetic cues from traditional fine arts; and this week, we're doing the same thing. Though the style in the French The Girl Without Hands is quite a long way from the rich oil portraits of Loving Vincent. Now, the inspiration is (or anyway, appears to be) Chinese ink wash painting, the art of sketching out characters and settings in a few swift, bold brush strokes with strongly-colored ink. The results deserve the same praise: this is, visually, one of the most distinctive, special, and unusual piece of cinema released this year.
This time around, the film has a narrative that can stand up to its style. The Girl Without Hands is a fairly straightforward adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale, about a young woman (voiced by Anaïs Demoustier) whose miller father...
Last week, we took a look at Loving Vincent, a stunningly gorgeous animated feature taking its aesthetic cues from traditional fine arts; and this week, we're doing the same thing. Though the style in the French The Girl Without Hands is quite a long way from the rich oil portraits of Loving Vincent. Now, the inspiration is (or anyway, appears to be) Chinese ink wash painting, the art of sketching out characters and settings in a few swift, bold brush strokes with strongly-colored ink. The results deserve the same praise: this is, visually, one of the most distinctive, special, and unusual piece of cinema released this year.
This time around, the film has a narrative that can stand up to its style. The Girl Without Hands is a fairly straightforward adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale, about a young woman (voiced by Anaïs Demoustier) whose miller father...
- 11/24/2017
- by Tim Brayton
- FilmExperience
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