It’d been 13 years since Leos Carax directed the provocative Pola X, his last feature length film before Holy Motors. Carax won the Canne Fest “Award of the Youth” in 1984 for Boy Meets Girl. Denis Lavant starred in that debut, has appeared in nearly all the films directed by Carax over the past 25 years, and there’s talk both of them could walk...
Monthly Archives: May 2012
It is a regret that I couldn’t stay in Cannes to see David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis. The reviews have come in from those who saw it – and even the negative ones can’t say anything to deter my interest. They sound like positives to me. But I guess it’s all about what you look for in a film, and what you’re expectations are. I’m...
With 21 reviews counted, Moonrise Kingdom has shot to the top of the Metacritic charts, with the highest score of any narrative film in English so far this year. Unless Moonrise gets hammered* with a few brutal reviews to shave points off that average, Wes Anderson’s golden valentine to childhood romance is the new #1 critic’s darling of 2012. [Now stands...
