The extras are superfluous, but the first-rate video transfer and superb, resonant audio promises to generate more fans of the remake.
Luca Guadagnino’s remake is a funereal pseudo-realist drama about political upheaval and the violence of systems that’s at odds with itself.
As seen through James Lord’s eyes, the dramas and passions on display come off as melodramas and grotesqueries.
The feeling here was perhaps intended to be impressionistic and elusive, but the result is instead rambling and unfocused.
The film’s darkness resists any glossing over of what isn’t only France’s, but Europe’s painful legacy.
Jessica Hausner’s miracle play gives viewers on either side of the fence plenty to meditate on.
Johnnie To isn’t a good action director, he’s a good director period—and Vengeance is one of his best.
Jessica Hausner’s film is a deliberately paced examination of Catholic mysticism with sharp sprinkles of magical realism.
Gender and genre are continuously bent in Serge Bozon’s uniquely weird and often starkly beautiful film experiment.
Eat, for This Is My Body is a stupid film by a smart man, for literally sees everything as black and white and legible.
The film is an epic, intuitive exploration of Edith Piaf’s hard life and times.
Is Sylvie Testud playing Björk on the DVD cover? Shhhh...it’s oh so quiet.
It would be pure absurdism if Akerman’s detached logic didn’t make so much sense.
Cartoons predictably grappling with issues of respect, honor, and subservience, the film’s Asian characters act and sound like throwbacks.
Ripped of her humanity, Sylvie Testud’s Christine becomes a working stiff of Greek proportions.