May 25th, 2025 by Gerard Iribe
The French underworld doesn’t get much colder than this. In Choice of Arms (1981), director Alain Corneau trades in the sweaty breakdowns of Serie Noire and the twisting tension of Police Python 357 for something more simmering — almost stately. Starring a trio of legends — Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, and Catherine Deneuve — this […]
May 4th, 2017 by Aaron Neuwirth
Get ready for a colorful and musical delight with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. This Criterion Collection release has actually already been available in 2014’s The Essential Jacques Demy Blu-ray box set. However, it would seem the resounding success of the Oscar-winning La La Land led to a separate release, as that film is so indebted […]
February 24th, 2012 by Sean Ferguson
Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello. This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream from provocateur for the ages Luis Buñuel is an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure (its characters’ and […]