Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Hell Is Other People

À Nos Amours (1983)
directed by Maurice Pialat
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix

First of all, why is the Criterion cover grey when most of the movie looks like this:



Second, "Amours" instilled all of the feeling that I've always expected but never felt from John Cassavetes - in spite of a lot of ugliness and an overriding pessimism in who we are, the capacity for gentleness with wisdom.

For B. Sweet when the Big Red won't do it: