A Couple ultimately constitutes not so much a footnote to Wiseman’s storied career as a beguiling little doodle in its margins.
This disc’s treasure trove of extras attest to the dizzying flurry of ideas and emotions that fuel Assayas’s uncategorizable film.
It’s occasionally too icily removed, but it compensates through its perpetual concern with understanding its characters and their untenable situations.
A jumpy, erudite cinephile, Olivier Assayas uses Maggie Cheung’s three days in Paris to take stock of cinema as the century comes to an end.
Alternately dreamy and scratchy, Assayas’s meta-satire still beguiles.
An embarrassing audio/video presentation for one of the very best films of the year.
Patrice Chéreau cuts to the core of human agony with the kind of precision that escapes most living directors.