There are two clear themes that have emerged by now at this year’s Venice Film Festival: one is the concept of the lost soul and the other is the sometimes perilous consequence of letting big-name directors cut loose on their dream projects. At 92, Frederick Wiseman has earned the right to do whatever he wants, but anyone getting over-excited about the prospect of this, his fiction debut, ought to know that Un Couple a) isn’t strictly fiction at all, and b) is very much of a piece with his famously unhurried longform documentaries.
The lost soul in his Venice Competition film is Leo Tolstoy’s wife Sophia, played by French actress Nathalie Boutefeu reading a text assembled from various letters between her and her famous literary husband. Aside from Sophia’s hairstyle and dress, there aren’t really any clues to period,...
The lost soul in his Venice Competition film is Leo Tolstoy’s wife Sophia, played by French actress Nathalie Boutefeu reading a text assembled from various letters between her and her famous literary husband. Aside from Sophia’s hairstyle and dress, there aren’t really any clues to period,...
- 9/2/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Includes ’The Whale’, ’White Noise’, ’The Eternal Daughter’, and ’Decision To Leave’.
Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, and Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave are among the titles that will play at the 66th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), that runs from October 5-16.
A total of 164 feature films (up from last year’s 159), including 23 world premieres, six international premieres and 15 European premieres have been programmed, with a curated programme of over 20 features and 15 short films available digitally across the whole of the UK on BFI Player until October...
Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, and Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave are among the titles that will play at the 66th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), that runs from October 5-16.
A total of 164 feature films (up from last year’s 159), including 23 world premieres, six international premieres and 15 European premieres have been programmed, with a curated programme of over 20 features and 15 short films available digitally across the whole of the UK on BFI Player until October...
- 9/1/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
You might think it would be strange to see a mega-budget Noah Baumbach movie complete with CGI explosions, a Spielbergian kind of holy terror, and even one sadistically drawn-out jump-scare dream sequence, but the oddest thing about “White Noise” is its persistent sense of déjà vu. Not just the déjà vu of watching such a faithful adaptation of any Great American Novel — although there’s plenty of that — but also the déjà vu that’s supposedly caused by exposure to the Airborne Toxic Event at the center of Don DeLillo’s 1985 book, a prescient and enduringly tender Polaroid of our late capitalist society in which life has become indistinguishable from its own imitation, and death has become a thing that only happens to other people.
Fittingly, if not always to its credit, Baumbach’s film is split between seeming brand-new and all too familiar at the same time; , his “White...
Fittingly, if not always to its credit, Baumbach’s film is split between seeming brand-new and all too familiar at the same time; , his “White...
- 8/31/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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