‘Daddy’ Is a Blast of Feminist Art to the Face
Daddy is a classic example of an artist making a museum film that showcases her campy and confrontational art and performance.
French cinema
Three Robert Hossein Films Evoke Harold Pinter
The three Robert Hossein films in Wicked Games exhibit gender-based power struggles and existentialist tendencies with a touch of absurdism.
Chantal Akerman’s Evolutions and Revolutions
From kitchen epics to road odysseys, these nine Chantal Akerman films chart the evolutions and revolutions of one of modern cinema’s most important auteurs.
French Filmmaker Julien Duvivier Is Ripe for Rediscovery
All four films in Criterion’s Julien Duvivier in the Thirties present a sour, self-critical image of French civilization and do it with finesse.
‘Vice and Virtue’ Is Resoundingly Allegorical and Artificial
Roger Vadim’s 1963 wartime drama Vice and Virtue is an almost abstract, self-parodic vision of decadence.
A Little Ominous Noir Music Makes Jules Dassin’s ‘Rififi’ Nearly Perfect
Jules Dassin’s Rififi, a benchmark of the heist genre shows that for the criminal, elegance and brutality go hand-in-hand.