Blu-ray Review: Amour
Anyone familiar with Austrian director Michael Haneke’s filmography—Funny Games, The Piano Teacher and Cache, among them—knows that he’s no stranger to taking on difficult topics and dealing with the controversy that comes with it. While his latest film, Amour, is less provocative, it’s no less unnerving. Haneke tackles the issue of growing old head on. […]
Blu-ray Review: Léon Morin, Priest
Aiming for a wider audience in 1961, the often overlooked director Jean-Pierre Melville (Les enfants terribles, Le samourai) adapted Beatrix Beck’s autobiographical novel The Passionate Heart. Set in a French village during World War II, Léon Morin, Priest is about a young woman falling in love with a handsome, radical young priest who’s fully aware […]