When I started writing the View From Home column for this website in 2010, it was single-focused on physical media — the Blu-rays and DVDs that had yet to be usurped by the streaming juggernauts. Times have changed, and while I too have integrated streaming for the majority of home viewing, exciting physical media still drops every week, and for certain titles it remains … [Read more...]
Dardennes’s ‘Unknown Girl’: Compelling social critique as noir mystery
Jenny Davin, the doctor at the heart of The Unknown Girl, is good at her job. Played by Adèle Haenel, she’s patient, flexible and agreeable. Her medical knowledge is vast as she deals with a comprehensive cross-section of Belgian society, from asthmatic seniors to wounded immigrant workers fearing deportation to pediatric cancer patients. She makes house calls, and seems to be … [Read more...]