Lust and personal resolve collide in Rohmerโs first feature in colour, lensed with warmth and sensuality by Days of Heavenโs Nestor Almendros.
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Lust and personal resolve collide in Rohmerโs first feature in colour, lensed with warmth and sensuality by Days of Heavenโs Nestor Almendros.
An essential work of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, Rochaโs film may be difficult to get into at times, but its electrifying visual style and bold commitment to deconstructing politics and class remain revered.
Godardโs anarchic work of gleeful nihilism is not just a challenging treatise on the corruption and destruction of bourgeois values, but one of his most essential films about the end of civility and civilisation.
A rather overdrawn Italian drama with stark humour by the great Bellocchio that fuses everything from Socialist politics, class system, sexual affairs and the Church that it gets heady at times.
Carol Whiteโs excellent performance as a young working-class woman in Ken Loachโs first feature gives us a taste of late โ60s UK and what it feels like to suffer from the misdeeds of men.
The great Jacques Tati delivers outrageously inventive comedy visual gags in some of the most elaborate mise-en-scene committed to film.
At times exasperating or perplexing, but Imamuraโs sly and unorthodox attempt at blurring the lines between fiction and fact ultimately says something about the artifice of cinema when its subjects have nothing more to say.
Continue reading →Accompanied by a low-key jazzy score, this is a light and sensual take on the complications of a past romance.