Lilting Offers a Vision of Cultures in Collision
ANGLO-CAMBODIAN DIRECTOR Hong Khaou’s drama Lilting certainly has elements to draw both a GLBT crowd and that dying demographic: “art film” connoisseurs. While set in London, the dialogue is in…More
Author: ALLEN ELLENZWEIG
Simone de Beauvoir Comes Alive with Violette
Violette. A film by Martin Provost YOU HAVE TO HAND IT to the French for making a biopic about a writer known in the U.S., if at all, only in academic…More
Yves Saint Laurent’s Genius Is Captured in a New Biopic
Yves Saint Laurent Directed by Jalil Lespert ONE OF THE PITFALLS of the biopic is the lead actor’s temptation to do a full-throttle imitation of the person whose life story is…More