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Review: Special Treatment (Sans Queue Ni Tête)
" Cheap jokes like a trick’s red-faced discovery of a dildo in her bedroom betray not only Labrune’s middlebrow idea of transgression, but also patronizes, and tries to cage, Huppert’s evasive identity as an actress. Huppert’s natural, ineradicable inscrutability, her refusal to emotionally simplify a single moment, is at odds with the script’s broad character arc and final semi-catharsis."
Special Treatment (Sans Queue Ni Tête) | Review
French Drama Never Fulfills the Promise of Isabelle Huppert as a Kinky Prostitute in Crisis
Review: Brighton Rock
"British producer-director team the Boulting Brothers made a masterly, faithful film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel ‘Brighton Rock’ in 1947; apropos of our morbidly redundant times, we now get first-time director Rowan Joffe’s faithless counterpoint. Overstuffed and overblown, Joffe’s version crucially misreads and ineptly revises Greene’s scintillating story about the competing forces of evil and grace in the materialist 20th century world, represented by England’s seedy seaside resort town of Brighton."
NYFF 2011 Announcement: Special Screenings & Docs includes Tenenbaums and Exterminating Angel
The New York Film Festival today added a full roster of documentaries, special screenings and events to the schedule of its 49th annual edition, highlighted by the world premiere of ‘Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,’ the latest doc by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky on the saga of the falsely incarcerated West Memphis Three, with a new ending added in the wake of their recent release from prison after 18 years.
