Vie Privée (A Private Life)
Academy Award winner Jodie Foster stars in this engaging psychological thriller by French director Rebecca Zlotowski, (“Other People’s Children”). The film follows Lilian (Foster), an American psychoanalyst in Paris, who is devastated by the apparent suicide of her client Paula (Virginie Efira). However, evidence from Paula’s angry widower Simon (Mathieu Amalric) and her daughter Valérie […]
Sympathy For the Underdog
Japanese auteur Kinji Fukusaku (BATTLE ROYALE, BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY) brings impeccable action sequences and grime-soaked maverick filmmaking to his early masterpiece SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG. A recently released yakuza boss returns home to find a new gang has claimed his old territory and his old compatriots scattered to the winds. Hungry for a […]
L’Étranger
“L’Étranger”, based on Albert Camus’s 1942 novella “The Stranger”, frames the arbitrary killing of an Arab by a French colonial in Algiers as an act of existential alienation. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother’s funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, […]
