Culture
Raymond Depardon’s Documentary Confrontations with Power
The Giscard movie, “A Day in the Country” (“1974, une partie de campagne,” a pun: also “A Day in the Campaign”), set a definitive tone for…
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French cinema
Culture
The Return of “My Favorite Season,” a Great Modern Melodrama
Melodrama isn’t central to modern French cinema, because melodrama is rooted in irony, whereas one could hardly slip a playing card…
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The Hitchcockian Wonders of “Misericordia”
The vitality of classic formats such as thrillers and mysteries comes not from their nostalgic reminders of old movies but from their…