The quality and scope of this set makes it one of the most impressive home-video releases of all time.
The tactility of earlier Hirokazu Kore-eda imagery has been traded for a softer, more luscious, nevertheless melancholic dream world.
Its intention is to put human faces to ISIS recruits, but its representation of radicalization is still uncomfortably one-sided.
The Blu-ray highlights the intricate art direction, cinematography, and sound mixing that make the film one of boldest literary adaptations ever made.
If not for its performances, the film would belong in the category of Hallmark Channel tearjerkers.
Demy’s film, more than The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, elevates the banal vicissitudes of lives spent dreaming.
If you’re looking to step into a rain shower before diving headfirst into Demy’s cinematic pool, this release is the best place to start.
At first, the film’s dark humor is amusing, only for it to wear off once an actual plot kicks into motion.
The film quickly devolves into a contemptible, exploitative presentation of sociological matters.
These films present very different versions of motherhood in France, both of which emerge out of social precarity.
Too worried about narrative fidelity and formal objectivity to pierce the veil of power dynamics that largely comprises the film’s concerns.
Benoît Jacquot never loses sight of the primordial compulsions that drive feelings and expressions of great love and beauty.
Demy once said that his dream was to make 50 films belonging to the same world, with overlapping characters and reference points.
Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand’s reinvention of the movie musical has tinsel, Technicolor, and a beating, broken heart.
As far as swan songs go, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Un Flic is a fascinatingly garbled tune.
As in much of Luis Buñuel’s preceding work, the film’s ingredients don’t immediately appear compatible.
There are more than a few striking images and intriguing ideas to be extracted from Tristana.
It suggests, rather compellingly, that abandoning lofty pipedreams for middle-class comfort is a crime less forgivable than murder.
Christophe Honoré’s film has scope and range and more well developed characters than it knows what to do with.
Part case history, past surrealist prank, Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour gets a stunning new Blu-ray transfer.