Let me start this tale the way I always start this tale, because the formative experience is the one that provides a key to the final meaning: “Transformation is a powerful thing. The first time I ...
What is it about the theater that attracts so many filmmakers? The actor’s paradoxical task — to tell the truth while pretending to be someone else — is usually at the heart of this fascination. Not a ...
(indieWIRE/ 02.27.02) — French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin first came into the public eye in 1996, when his second film “My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument,” a soap operatic look at ...
A bristling hybrid of nature documentary and philosophy dissertation, Esther Kahn essentially casts an East End wild child in the role of Nietzschean superman. As played by Summer Phoenix, aspiring ...
About a third of the way through “Esther Kahn” (2000), French director Arnaud Desplechin’s most mystifying work – and one of three to be shown this weekend in a mini-retrospective at the Anthology ...