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FATALE

December 20, 2020 By Leave a Comment

FATALE

FATALE is a densely plotted and devilishly twisted erotic fantasy of a noir. Filmed with self-conscious style, it offers a variation on FATAL ATTRACTION that is not without merit, yet with a bemused view of womanhood that gives one pause. We are firmly ensconced in the, admittedly noir Madonna/whore paradigm here, but making a woman… Read More »

Tagged With: FATAL ATTRACTION, infidelity, Las Vegas, madonna/whore, murder, noir, seamy underbelly

THE PARTY

February 20, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE PARTY

It begins with Kristen Scott-Thomas, in stark black-and-white, answering her door, hair askew, elegance frayed, eyes wild. She points a handgun right at the camera.

Tagged With: infidelity, party, promotion, relationships, revelations, secrets revealed

FARE — Thomas Torrey Interview

March 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment

FARE — Thomas Torrey Interview

The first thing I asked Thomas Torrey when I spoke with him by phone on February 23, 2017, was whether shooting his film, FARE, in three days, and entirely within a car, was necessity or personal challenge. Once that was out of the way, we went on to talk about the odd sort of intimacy… Read More »

Tagged With: agnostic, C. S. Lewis, cinematography, coincidence, infidelity, Kunal Rajan, Madeleine L’Engle, moon roof, mystery, R.C. Walker, ride-share, sound design, suspense, The Screwtape Letters, theology, Wormwood

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

April 24, 2016 By 1 Comment

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

LOUDER THAN BOMBS begins with a perfect picture of family love. Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) is marveling at his newborn as his wife Amy, (Megan Ketch) looks on beaming. Jonah is beaming, too, and he is aghast that he has forgotten to bring his wife the food she had requested when she discovered that the hospital tray… Read More »

Tagged With: brothers, car accident, depression, father-son relationship, infidelity, maternal death, photojournalist

BRICK LANE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

All credit to director Sarah Gavron and company for taking on the task of adapting “Brick Lane”, Monica Ali’s finely realized novel to the big screen. They’ve made bold cuts, condensing the story, but not the emotions, and distilling from it the essence of a woman’s journey from darkness to light. The darkness is the overwhelming… Read More »

Tagged With: arranged marriage, Bengali immigrants, book to screen, BRICK LANE, infidelity, Islam, London, Monica Ali, Susan Gavron, Tannishtha Chatterjee

Sarah Gavron Visits BRICK LANE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Sarah Gavron Visits BRICK LANE

When I spoke to Sarah Gavron at the San Francisco International Film Festival on April 25, 2008, her film, BRICK LANE, was screening and she was anxious to find out what Bay Area audiences would make of it. She needn’t have worried, but then, worry was part of the process of bringing Monica Ali’s novel to… Read More »

Tagged With: arranged marriage, Bengali immigrants, book to screen, BRICK LANE, infidelity, Islam, London, Monica Ali, Susan Gavron, Tannishtha Chatterjee

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