After spending seven years together, Jimmy (Shawn Yue) and CHerie (Miriam Chin Wah Yeung) decide if their romance is one for the record books. Ho-Cheung Pang directs.
Truffaut's latest update on Antoine Doinel finds our hero (the ever grungier Jean-Pierre Leaud) in the clutches of a new girlfriend (Dorothée sans surname) who achieves a great leap forward in the evolution of progressively cuter Doinel girlfriends (we first see her in a Snoopy nightie). At the last possible …
July 1997. Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends spend the summer going on dates with older men for money. Armed with only a cellphone, Hiromi sets out to date her way to ¥128,000 in order to purchase an expensive topaz ring before the mall closes for the day.
An album of coffee-table erotica in illustration of Marguerite Duras's autobiographical novel about the affair of a French schoolgirl and a well-heeled Chinese outlander in Indochina, 1929. The basic situation — forbidden love, interracial love — casts in retrospect some interesting light on Duras's seminal screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour, …
Fact-based tale, despite the name changes from Oscar Bonavena, Sally Burgess, Joe Conforte, and the Mustang Ranch, of a lethal love triangle comprising an Argentinian heavyweight contender and the married partners in a legal brothel outside of Reno. It seems a subject made to order for the screen, though you …
Lover Of Men examines the intimate life of America’s most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never before seen photographs and letters, the film details Lincoln’s romantic relationships with men. Lover Of Men widens its lens into the history of human sexual fluidity and focuses …
It would take conscious effort to recall, when watching it today, that this movie ever enjoyed a notoriety for erotic scintillation (or for anything much beyond a kind of Emma Bovaryan romantic mooniness). The indulgence in epicureanism and high-toned party-talk might seem to cater more toward those appetites addressed (much …
Debra Winger and Tracy Letts are miserable marrieds in writer-director Azazel Jacobs’ acidic dramedy, each in the midst of an affair and on the brink of asking for divorce. It’s not quite clear at the outset why they can’t stand each other; they seem to have reached the point of …
Well-packaged trash, sent over from Spain, consisting of the concupiscent widow, the chaste maid, and the callow young man in the middle. The hot parts are moderately warm; the cooling-off parts are lengthy; Maribel Verdú is highly believable and touching in the stereotyped role of Señorita Priss. With Victoria Abril …
Otto and Ana, by name, two walking palindromes on destiny's roadmap. This rumination on cycles, endings, and the dream of eternal love, from Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem (another palindrome, please note), is a juggling-act of viewpoints, time periods, poetic motifs, and philosophical nuggets. Mildly diverting but severely taxing. With Najwa …
Grand passion in the Parisian gutter: the love of a broken-legged acrobat for a half-blind artist, sharing a stone bench on the Pont-Neuf during its closure for restoration. ("Love takes bedrooms," philosophizes a fellow bum, "not windy sidewalks.") The bicentennial fireworks and the frolicking beneath them are something to see, …
Two weird sisters -- real sisters, really weird -- in hot competition for the dour deejay from Brisbane who has moved next door to them in a bleak little burg in the Outback. Some nice Bad Taste color and small-town tackiness, but the place is underpopulated and unexplored, and the …