Mini-Review: A fascinating study of the Tour in simpler, but equally hellish, times.
Mini-Review: We all love Anna Karina's work with Godard, but this is the most powerful performance I've seen from her. An engaging dissection of a young woman's struggles with faith and servitude.
Mini-Review: Mikhael Hers is the director I feel that best gives voice to my generation. His characters are usually preoccupied with their own problems, but Hers directs in such a way as to make them appear not self-obsessed, merely real people in the real world.
Mini-Review: Those Sixties sure were swinging. Coolness exemplified.
Mini-Review: Wry surrealist humour added to a highly Kafkaesque story make for an entertaining 37 minutes. As an aside, it's wonderful to be able to use the word 'Kafkaesque' in a review without being pretentious.
Mini-Review: Mai Zetterling's short film about two boys playing with a toy pistol explores the Cold War mentality of brinkmanship with incomparable tension. Each moment of this film is filled with dread.
Mini-Review: The two main characters in this film inhabit such a tender and beautiful world that it is often easy to think of it as unrealistic, and yet those thoughts are the very reason why this film succeeds. It challenges preconceptions and makes you reconsider the innocence and joy available in life.
Mini-Review: Fiction within fiction within fiction. This is a very creative Dostoevsky adaptation that deserves a wider audience.