Category: Reviews

It’s a wonderful experience to sit in a movie theater, watch a film, and about halfway through, come to the realization that you’re having a truly satisfying time. Lantana does this to you by slowly, inexorably winding you into its narrative net by the accretion of deep, revealing, realistic character … More

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One of the hallmarks of film made in the days when sex was still taboo to show onscreen was the art of delay. This was the idea that sexual tension would be increased by slow accretion of innuendo, unfulfilled desire, longing stares, and pregnant pauses. By setting his latest film, … More

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Images flow before us as soothing as a forest stream: the dusky earth, the sapphire sky, the charcoal-line of the open road, waving fields of buttery corn that shimmer like hair, and the craggy, sun-worn face of an old man who squints from beneath a battered cowboy hat as he … More

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