The story of the Boleyn sisters rivals Greek tragedies in relevance and grandiosity. Its outcome has indefinitely influenced modern civilization and its tragic drama has courted its way into our literature, cinema and…
Date Archives October 2004
Scary Movie
What the hell happened!?! How did a juvenile, disgusting comedy by the Wayans brothers, a satire of a satire at that, achieve to pull 42 millions in its opening week-end? When “Austin Powers: The Spy…
Marie Antoinette
Okay, it’s official, I hate Sofia Coppola. Well, ‘hate’ might be too strong a word. After all, the Coppola dauphine is too harmless and insignificant to inspire more than mild displeasure. You need to be…
Robin Aubert
2005 Saints-Martyrs-des-damnés57 [ You have to appreciate a film that can both quote Rimbaud (“Je me crois en enfer, donc j’y suis.”) and milk a three-breasted girl joke for all its worth. For his first…
J’ai tué ma mère
Hyped beyond all measure during the Cannes Film Festival (where it was shown at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs), this first picture by Xavier Dolan, who wrote it when he was 17 and directed it when…