La captive
Difficult, difficult to understand... unless you like Proust.
Difficult, difficult to understand... unless you like Proust.
The most fascinating part of this film to me was the use of language. Spoiler alert: the use of the the formal and familiar tenses at inverse segments of the...
Chantal Akerman's minimal adaptation of Proust works, but just barely. Stanislas Merhar deserves much of the credit for the film's success. It is an interesting film about obsession that runs...
Hitchcockian studies of dark obsession melded with Proust's introspective melodrama and study of identity as funneled through Akerman's distinctive style make for a deceptively simple film that contains deep thematic...
Subversive in its form, but of course that makes it hard to watch. Patient film.