Can love and infidelity coexist? Philippe Garrel has been exploring messy romance in Paris since the 60s to varying degrees of success and pretension. This time, it’s the story of Louis (played by Garrel’s own son, Louis), who leaves his girlfriend (Rebecca Convenant) and their daughter (Olga Milshtein) for a sexy and mysterious out-of-work actress […]
“Me, Myself, and Mum” opens with a literal unmasking. It’s a facemask that Guillaume Gallienne washes off before taking the stage to perform his one-man show about a boy who grew up to wonder whether the person everyone decided he was is the person he really is. As he begins his story of self-discovery, we go with […]
French author Violette Leduc is the subject of Martin Provost’s latest historical biopic. Leduc (Emmanuelle Devos) was trading food on the black market during World War II when writer Maurice Sachs (Olivier Py) first urged her to pick up a pen. Like many, Leduc found a journal the best way to voice her frustrations and […]
While introducing himself, struggling, middle-aged actor Jean Renault (François Damiens) throws in “like the car” in an attempt to avoid the wide eyes of those thinking they’ve just met Jean Reno (of “Léon: The Professional”), but it’s often too late and with this comparison in mind, Renault appears all the more insignificant. That doesn’t stop […]
