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The View From Home 80: Sokurov at the Louvre, Pialat’s Van Gogh, Resnais, Makavajev, Verhoeven and forbidden love

August 7, 2016 By John Thomason

Francofonia: Defying categorization, Alexander Sokurov’s hypnotically watchable Francofonia (Music Box, $24.19 Blu-ray, $20.69 DVD) is an essay and a collage, a historical fiction that is also documentary about its own creation, a place where past and present can collide during a single circular pan. Its subject is the Louvre, particularly the museum’s uncertain future during … [Read more...]

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