The Gleaners and I is a lightfooted meditation from an aging master so comfortable with her medium that her work feels like play.
The film may make you wonder how much Gus Van Sant was thinking about Vagabond when he made Last Days.
After AMPAS finally threw a first-ever nomination at Werner Herzog two years ago, we thought they might similarly give props to Agnès Varda this year.
Varda turns the camera on herself and her own life, even though she convincingly posits that she’s much more interested in other people.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2009: 35 Shots of Rum, The Beaches of Agnès, The Apprentice, & More
by Vadim Rizov
I took almost no notes during 35 Shots of Rum, because it seemed kind of beside the point: Claire Denis’s pleasures are almost all immediate.
Atom Egoyan’s latest finds the director back in Canadian Traumaland after his Hollywood sojourn in Where the Truth Lies.