Starring:
Michelle Pfeiffer
Review:
As a cougar chasing a teen twink: That’s a crass précis
for the elegant, witty pleasures that Pfeiffer, director Stephen
Frears and writer Christopher Hampton — who last collaborated
on 1988’s Dangerous Liaisons — carve out of this
tale by the French novelist Colette. Set in Paris in the early
1900s, the film begins as retired courtesan […]

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Starring:
Juliette Binoche
Review:
A mother dies. A family gathers to divide the estate and trade
memories. Life and death, those persistent cliches, duke it out
once more at a country house just outside Paris. From familiar
material, writer-director Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Boarding
Gate) crafts a near perfect blend of humor and heartbreak, a
lyrical masterwork that measures loss in […]

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