Tag Archives: Pauline at the Beach

A sea resort engulfed in forest fires makes a topical metaphor for Christian Petzold’s story of a writer’s slow burning heart.

Joyce Glasser reviews Afire (August 25, 2023) Cert 12A, 103 mins. In cinemas & on Curzon Home Cinema Writer/director Christian Petzold, now 62, has always made films in German and, regardless of t ...

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The wonderful Ira Sachs ventures out of Manhattan to Portugal with mixed results.

Frankie (May 28, 2021) Cert 15, 91 mins. This is not what you expect from director Ira Sachs (writing with his regular co-writer Mauricio Zacharias). When a director branches out, experiments and surp ...

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Eric Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs series (January 2021) MUBI Channel

Pauline at the Beach (Pauline à la Plage), 1983 (Cert 15), 91 mins.Full Moon in Paris (Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune), 1984 (Cert 15) 97 mins. French New Wave auteur Eric Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs ...

andrew 1977 views 0 likes Jan 20, 2021