The film’s storytelling is deceptively straightforward, rooted in realistic dialogue and Hansen-Løve’s light touch as a visual stylist.
The film ultimately trades its main character’s account of her own suffering for her therapist’s pathologizing assessment.
The film is so humorless and in love with its own obviousness that it grows laughable.
The films in this collection have been given satisfying transfers and some eye-opening supplements.
Fear(s) of the Dark trades in disturbing youthful memories and ghastly tactility.
From the look of Bernard Giraudeau’s face on the DVD cover, it appears as if he’s smelled Ludivine Sagnier’s le petite fart.
Claude Miller follows his successful Alias Betty with the equally mechanical life-imitating-art La Petite Lili.