[photopress:summerhours.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Family matters
Olivier Assayas, who made the fascinating (and underrated) demonlover (2002), analyzes the emotional angst that is the dividend of choosing between nostalgic attachment and financial gain, in this somewhat clinical but nevertheless engaging study of family dynamics.
The sudden passing of family matriarch Hélène (Edith Scob) sets her children to confrontation over the painful [...]
[photopress:logo_en_1.png,thumb,alignleft]And, guess what? Our man James got it wrong, of course, a fact that will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever read any of his Oscars predictions…
The film Le Silence de Lorna (2008), by Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, is the winner of the European Parliament LUX Cinema Prize 2008. EP [...]
[photopress:Lorna_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] As promised in our recent article on the European Parliament LUX Cinema Prize, we begin our assessment of the three films up for the gong. A review of Občan Havel (2008) will follow on Picturenose presently, and you can check out Delta (2008) on our sister site, European Film Awards Reviews…
Belgian director brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc [...]