Doug, a literature professor, had left England for Paris, where he was to attend the funeral of a dear friend. She does that --- he willingly complies. Please enter your birth date to watch this video: You are not allowed to view this material at this time. Moreover, all of us have seen countless films with two strangers meeting on a public transport, having sex and moving on in their lives to their individual paths.

Her own natural hair gets her dirty looks from white co-workers in the lobby and a miniature lecture from Zora herself, so despite what her family and her other black co-workers might think, she follows Zora’s lead and gets a weave. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! But to me personally, its five stars. At the start of the film, Justine (Garance Marillier) is a virgin who’s poked and prodded relentlessly by her classmates until she evolves only to be rebuffed for being too interested in sex—a no-win hypocrisy faced by many women. Lastly, due to its regional setting, a film about a French woman falling in love with a non French speaking person in a day has limited interest for viewers interested in world cinema. Thriller That Lacks Self-Awareness, Review: The Third Day Leans Heavily on Mystery at the Expense of Human Drama, Review: We Are Who We Are Perceptively Homes in on the Malleability of Boundaries, Interview: Garrett Bradley on Exploring Human Dimensionality in Time, Watch: Lady Gaga’s “911” Music Video Is a Surreal Death Dream, On the Rocks Trailer: A Father-Daughter Journey Through the City that Never Sleeps, Listen: Dua Lipa Elevates “Levitating” with Help from Madonna and Missy Elliott, Review: Billie Eilish’s “My Future” Is an Unexpectedly Upbeat Tribute to Isolation, Review: Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of Shinya Tsukamoto on Arrow Blu-ray, Review: Sidney J. Furie’s The Ipcress File on KL Studio Classics Blu-ray, Blu-ray Review: Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite on the Criterion Collection, Blu-ray Review: Stephen Frears’s The Hit on the Criterion Collection, Review: Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream on Lionsgate 4K Ultra HD, In Ivo van Hove’s Hands, West Side Story’s Actors Are Mice in A Cinematic Maze, Review: Hamlet at St. Ann’s Warehouse Is a Triumph of Production Over Performance, Confessions of a Drag Legend: Charles Busch on The Confession of Lily Dare, Review: Timon of Athens Takes Arms Against the Ravages of Wealth, Under the Radar 2020: The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes, Not I, & More, Bestiary Poetically Raises a Coming-of-Age Tale to the Level of Myth, Glenn Kenny’s Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas Is a Stellar Anatomy of a Film, The Appointment Is a Bitterly Comic Unburdening of a Conscience, For Stephen King, As Well As His Fans, If It Bleeds Is a Coming Home.

In the process, Nayman achieves one of a critic’s loftiest goals: grappling with a body of work while honoring its mystery. In other moments, though, Sole’s directorial control is magisterial. Alix was on a train bound for Paris where she was going to audition for a film, having just left Calais where she had performed in an Ibsen play. Alice and her dad have to move down south because he wants to develop a new fragrance using pine cones local to the region, whose fruit only comes out if the person blowing through the cone has discovered the pine cone’s real essence. Ham on Rye’s second half is informed with a kind of survivor’s guilt that’s also reminiscent of Carrie.