Lesbian Love in the ’70s in a New French Film
IN SUMMERTIME (La belle saison), screenwriter–director Catherine Corsini takes us to the halcyon days of early 1970s French feminism, when a small action cell of women meets to plot high-spirited…More
Author: ALLEN ELLENZWEIG
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Scenes from a Marriage
Dada Woof Papa Hot A play by Peter Parnell Directed by Scott Ellis At the Lincoln Center Theater IN OUR AGE of same-sex marriage and parenting, a…More
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
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