Category: Cinema

«What you hear me shout is precisely what I least believe in.» John Davidson. We spend a large part of our lives believing that we own our bodies. Perhaps because we've never needed to ask permission. We want to be quiet, and we are. We want to remain silent, and we are. We choose one word among thousands and we say it. Rarely…

“When we play the piano four-handed, we play our partner, we can converse, even during a concert. It’s profoundly intimate… With four hands, we can deeply feel the other person, their sensitivity, the pulse of their heart.” Alexandre Tharaud It is often said that the opposite of love is hate. Perhaps that is one of the most…

“Do you believe in God? I know it’s a personal question. I do. And I think it was very impressive that He created relativity, don’t you agree? The faster you go, the less time you experience. It’s as if He’s inviting us to explore the universe.” Andy Weir. Survival, when elevated to a cosmic scale, ceases to be…

“"I don't know how to explain it, but surely you, like everyone else, must have the feeling that there is, or at least should be, another self beyond the one we are… My greatest sufferings in this world were Heathcliff's sufferings, and I accompanied each one of them from the beginning. He is the one who…"

“True generosity towards the future consists in giving everything to the present.” Albert Camus. It begins with a horizon that promises escape and, in an instant, contracts like a fist. Battle After Battle presents itself right there: conflict as method, narrative as arena, image as a field of permanent tension. From the very first shot, a horizon that threatens…

“Reality is not art; but realistic art is that which manages to create a complete aesthetic of reality.” André Bazin. There are nights when cinema seems like clockwork: everything fits together, the machinery performs its ritual, the gears of consensus turn effortlessly. The Oscars are, every year, that encounter between art…

“"As long as there are men who breathe or eyes that see, so this will live, and this will give you life." William Shakespeare. There are themes that literature and cinema avoid. Not for lack of courage, but for excessive weight. The loss of a child is, perhaps, the most absolute of them. It admits no rhetoric. It admits no consolation…

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never decide to be good or bad.” Hannah Arendt. There are films that frighten us by what they show, others, rarer, unsettle us by what they suggest. Sinners clearly belongs to the second category. On the surface, it seems to belong to the contemporary tradition of stylized horror, with suspicion…