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Sometimes I wish I were all alone with you in the world with nobody around us. A German cleaning woman and a Moroccan mechanic twenty years her junior fall in love, despite the malignant prejudice that threatens to create a rift between them. The depth of feeling traveling between these actors’ eyes is both powerfully romantic and full of dread.
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I’ve loved every taut, honest movie I’ve seen from the Dardennes, and their “fairy tale” of a foster kid trying to scrap his way back to his dad is no exception. Thomas Doret is raw, violent, and vulnerable, and Cécile de France matches him as the foster mother who refuses to let him scare her off.
Thank you Louis Ozawa for making sure I finally watched this masterpiece. After learning he has stomach cancer and only months to live, a low-level city official struggles to make use of the time he has left. I was struck by how unlikely and extraordinary a true push against a system can be; it may not transform a government, but can still make real change in the lives of others.
Propelled to the stars by pure imagination, an adventurer after my own heart! I rang in May the 4th with a different kind of space adventure this year. Karel Zeman puts his actors in fantastical hand-painted environments, then surrounds them with stop-motion animation so inventive and unpredictable that these 60-year-old effects literally made me gasp. |
The Bri-terion CollectionI’m loving the Criterion Channel streaming service, so every week I’m going to share my favorite new find. 
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