Starts off fast and the pace only accelerates to keep up with James Cagney’s fast-talking Coca-Cola marketer in Berlin, charged with keeping his boss’s daughter safe when she visits–a task that quickly becomes more than he bargained for when she secretly marries a communist from East Berlin and plans to move to Moscow with him. [...]
I’m sorry, Jean-Luc, I didn’t quite get it this time. This Godard film was made in 1961, but not released in France for a couple of years because of its unflinching torture scenes and intimation that the French army was quite as unprincipled as the Algerian one during the Algerian War. I don’t know anything [...]
Angela (Anna Karina) wants to have a baby. Her boyfriend Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy) isn’t terribly excited by the idea and jokingly foists her off onto their friend Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo) – who is himself deeply in love with Angela. Though there’s real conflict in the relationships, the overarching tone is farcical, and I dare you [...]
Karin is having some issues. She’s just out of a mental hospital and seems to be doing better on vacation with her husband, father and brother. Her husband is still concerned about her, though, a concern which turns out to be warranted when she starts having terrifying visions, famously one of God as a spider. [...]
Now, I really think I missed something here. Divorce, Italian Style is usually right up there on critics lists and is considered one of the best Italian comedies ever. Perhaps Italians don’t make very many good comedies? No, but seriously. The premise is great – an Italian man stuck in an unhappy marriage hits on [...]
