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A CHRISTMAS TALE Clip and IFC Series
SpoutBlog —
In the middle of Tom Hall’s interview with Arnaud Desplechin, director of my current favorite film of the year A Christmas Tale, indieWIRE has embedded a clip from the film, which I’ve in turn stolen and embedded above. This scene, in which Catherine Deneuve’s ailing (but still gorgeous) matriarch Junon goes shopping with her son’s new girlfriend (played by Emmanuelle Devos), incorporates the film’s running joke about Angela Bassett.
A Christmas ...
Fests and events, 11/3.
GreenCine Daily —
Every Minute, Four Ideas: The Films of Arnaud Desplechin runs at IFC Center from Wednesday through November 13 (and A Christmas Tale opens the next day). Tom Hall talks with Desplechin for indieWIRE.
This Sunday at Light Industry in Brooklyn: Pedro Costa introduces Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Too Early, Too Late. Via Kim West's review of Capricci's release of In Vanda's Room in France on DVD and its accompanying book ...
Klawans on Desplechin.
GreenCine Daily —
... it and more of an impression that a masterful filmmaker is permitting himself liberties - including the right to resolve the story perfunctorily, literally with a coin toss. (Talk about flippancy.) I excuse everything on the grounds that Desplechin is exercising a self-assurance he's earned."
Klawans approaches Desplechin from another angle in Nextbook, where he argues that he's "contemporary cinema's most Jewish non-Jewish director."
Earlier: Tom Hall's profile for indieWIRE and an everything-so-far-type collection of reviews of ...
Desplechin: French Auteur of A Christmas Tale
Thompson On Hollywood —
... fluid during filming, uses no storyboards, improvises with the actors, makes many changes on set as he chooses how to express a scene. "I'm not able to say this is my style," he says. "I'm looking at what's happening on set and finding the appropriate style to have it. Even if my characters are very talkative it's a way of reminding that film in a silent art. The perfect movie is the one where you don't recgonize me at all as a film by Arnaud Desplechin."
Indiewire interviews Desplechin and NYT's Dennis Lim profiles him. Reviews are strong (87 ...
