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Frontier of Dawn, the new film from talented but largely ignored post-New Wave French director Philippe Garrel, focuses on a young photographer, François (Louis Garrel, the filmmaker’s son), and the two women with whom he finds and loses love. Shot in gorgeous high-contrast black and white, the movie is, according to the Times's Manohla Dargis, a "fatalistic romance." She means that as a compliment: "It’s a lovely work, suffused with a deep melancholy that seems etched into each of its beautifully lighted images... [Garrel] transforms a private reverie into a public sacrament, invokes the eternal, risks absurdity, invites derision, seduces, shocks, transcends."
Click on the stills above for more details and reviews of this week's releases and repertory selections, which also include Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, 12, Everlasting Moments, Tokyo!, Frontier of Dawn, Explicit Ills, Phoebe in Wonderland, Leave Her to Heaven, Teeth, and eXistenZ.
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Go see Leave Her to Heaven—it's a restored print and Gene Tierney is amazing in it.
I'm seeing two Rendez-Vous films this weekend: Girl from Monaco and The Joy of Singing.
Watchmen will be a huge let down if you've read the graphic novel.
what? the movie was exactly like the comic.
Whoa, Jackie Earle Haley is in Watchmen? I may just go, then. He was great in Breaking Away, but then that whole movie was great. Sort of makes sense, I guess. Rorschach is supposed to go nuts after being taunted about his size, just like Moocher did in the earlier movie. "Don't forget to punch the clock, shorty." Crash.