In this Pasolini favorite (he would famously ask the leads to play a role in his film Salò), two aging actresses (Hélène Surgère and Sonia Saviange) fantasize and remember days gone by in a haze of wine-muddled memories. Yet as the line blurs between dream and reality, life in Paris creates very real difficulties for […]
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In this Pasolini favorite (he would famously ask the leads to play a role in his film Salò), two aging actresses (Hélène Surgère and Sonia Saviange) fantasize and remember days gone by in a haze of wine-muddled memories. Yet as the line blurs between dream and reality, life in Paris creates very real difficulties for […]
A serial killer whose victims are suicidal women (Jacques Perrin), an inspector willing to resort to unconventional methods to catch him (Julien Guiomar), the thief that follows behind to rob the corpses of the victims (Paul Barge), and a woman with even more mysterious motivations (Eva Simonet) form an odd quartet in Vecchiali’s The Strangler. […]
Like Une femme douce, The Devil, Probably begins with an unexplained death and looks backwards in an attempt to make sense of the tragedy. The film is weighed down by all of the troubles of its time with discussion of politics, ecology, and philosophy. It is fitting that a film so charged would be Bresson’s […]
Like Une femme douce, The Devil, Probably begins with an unexplained death and looks backwards in an attempt to make sense of the tragedy. The film is weighed down by all of the troubles of its time with discussion of politics, ecology, and philosophy. It is fitting that a film so charged would be Bresson’s […]