Tag: Olivier Gourmet
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This historically rich account of Marx’s development lacks introspection and perspective
Joyce Glasser reviews The Young Karl Marx (Le jeune Karl Marx) (May 4, 2018) Cert TBC, 188 min. After Raoul Peck’s powerful and thought-provoking documentary, I Am Not Your Negro about the […]
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Catherine Deneuve is potent, exotic cheese to Catherine Frot’s chalk in this predictable comedy-drama
Joyce Glasser reviews The Midwife (July 7, 2017) Cert 12A, 117 min. It is normally biographical movies about gifted, closeted and unconventional artists who end up in asylums that trip […]
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A biographical film of novelist Violette Leduc
Like his celebrated film Séraphine, writer/director Martin Provost’s Violette is another engrossing biopic of a little known French female artist of the 20th Century: the novelist Violette Leduc (1907-1972). Violette’s […]