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SUNDOWN

February 12, 2022 By Leave a Comment

SUNDOWN

Potent and deliberately enigmatic, Michel Franco’ SUNDOWN doesn’t so much tell a story as put a mirror up to its audience. With a central character that never explains, only exists with his own imperturbable agenda, it is for us to project our own ideas onto him as we sort out the mysteries of his actions… Read More »

Tagged With: Acapulco, Family, Mexico, wealth

JOHN AND THE HOLE

August 7, 2021 By Leave a Comment

JOHN AND THE HOLE

JOHN AND THE HOLE is a film that demands that its audience draw its own conclusions rather than spell out what has driven a 13-year-old boy to trap his family in an abandoned bunker. Dancing adroitly between reality and metaphor, this psychologically disturbing story is told in muted colors and hushed tones, the better to… Read More »

Tagged With: banana peel, bunker, Family, home alone

BACK TO BURGUNDY

December 30, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BACK TO BURGUNDY

BACK TO BURGUNDY’s original French title is less about returning home and more about the ties that bind one to that home. I leave the reasons for why movie titles are willfully mistranslated, but bring it up because THE TIES THAT BIND feels like a more accurate description of why a prodigal son finds it… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, France, intergenerational tension, winemaking

THE WAR WITH GRANDPA

October 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE WAR WITH GRANDPA

Amid the stale jokes and flat direction to be found in THE WAR WITH GRANDPA, one is subjected to cartoonish takes on elder abuse, child abuse, and I’m pretty sure that the bass didn’t enjoy its time during the fishing sequence. Based on the book of the same name by Robert Kimmel Smith, the film… Read More »

Tagged With: attic, book to screen, Family, father-daughter, fishing, Santa

THE TRUTH (La Vérité)

July 3, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE TRUTH (La Vérité)

In Hirokazu Koreeda’s last film, the Oscar®-nominated SHOPLIFTERS, he incisively examined the ethics of capitalism, and its effects on one poverty-stricken, yet devoted, ragtag family ingeniously doing battle with a system designed to keep them down economically. In THE TRUTH, he moves the action from Tokyo to Paris to examine the ethics of veracity on… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, film-with-a-film, memoir, mother-daughter, Paris

US

March 22, 2019 By Leave a Comment

US

There is much to unpack in Jordan Peele’s deeply disturbing, darkly funny horror film, US.  As it twists and turns through its doppelganger premise, the scariest part of the action isn’t the fear of home invasion by strangers out for slow, painstaking revenge.

Tagged With: beach, class privilege, Family, Santa Cruz, twins

HEREDITY

June 12, 2018 By Leave a Comment

HEREDITY

The only thing wrong with HEREDITY is that is bound to spawn increasingly inferior installments in a new franchise that is as inevitable as its protagonists’ descent into madness.  That aside, this deeply disturbing horror film does not need the supernatural in order to worm its way into the darkest recesses of your psyche where… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, horror, inheritance, insanity, mother-daughter

THE GLASS CASTLE — Jeannette Walls Interview

August 8, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE GLASS CASTLE — Jeannette Walls Interview

Jeannette Walls is a larger-than-life personality, brimming with energy and a ready laugh that fills a room.  That she is still laughing after the childhood she describes in her best-selling memoir, THE GLASS CASTLE is a testament to her innate toughness, and to her ability to appreciate the wonder with which her eccentric parents imbued… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, Destin Daniel Cretton, Family, father-daughter, Jeannette Walls, memoir, Naomi Watts, New York City, secret, West Virginia

A QUIET PASSION — Terence Davies Interview

May 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment

A QUIET PASSION — Terence Davies Interview

Terence Davies is a man of keen intellect and mordant wit who describes himself as one of life’s observers. His films, THE DEEP BLUE SEA, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, his semi-autobiographical DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES, and OF TIME AND THE CITY, his documentary tribute to his hometown of Liverpool, which used Dickinson’s poetry as part… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, afterlife, Amherst, Cynthia Nixon, Emily Dickinson, evangelical, Family, family quarrels, Gettysburg Address, Massachusetts, Paradise, poetry, soul, Vryling Buffam

THE RED TURTLE

January 17, 2017 By 1 Comment

THE RED TURTLE

We are reminded in THE RED TURTLE how superfluous words can be. This animated fable from Studio Ghibli, aimed more at adults than at children, is a thoughtful film about the cycle of life, and a sublime cinematic achievement. A masterpiece, in fact. Starting with a shipwreck, it tells the story of a castaway marooned… Read More »

Tagged With: castaway, desert island, destiny, fable, Family, miracle, shipwreck, turtle

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