Today’s film reviews…
The
Diving Bell and the Butterfly: “Nobody with an ounce of empathy could
fail to be moved by the true story of this volume's painstaking creation.
Still, it's the real-life story, not the artistry involved in its telling, that
does all the heavy lifting here.”
The
Savages: Tamara Jenkins who directed “the ticklish comedy Slums of
Beverly Hills, came out nine long years ago
— has finally made another movie. Her touch is equally assured here, in a very
different context, and it's no crime (he damned with faint praise) if the
result is solid rather than exciting, expertly covering all the expected
restrained-indie bases.”
Chronicle of an Escape: “The film
belongs to that large, undistinguished subset of historical dramas that achieve
little more than informing viewers that the events onscreen did in fact take
place."
Also new in the film lounge, we have
an interview
with the Tamara Jenkins, director of The
Savages.
“I definitely wasn't interested in a
sentimental portrait or a sanctimonious portrait or a maudlin portrait. It was
really important to be blunt and honest about it, but I think inherent in that
is this sort of humor that courses through the movie simultaneous with the tragedy.”
