Greta Gerwig and the pooch in Wiener-Dog. (Photo by Linda Callerus) Wiener-Dog may be Todd Solondz’s most Solondzian movie ever, and there is no image more Solondzian than his tracking shot of a seemingly endless train of dog diarrhea on a city street, scored to Debussy’s Clair de Lune. It’s simultaneously elegant and nasty, beautiful and repulsive, the cheekily contrapuntal … [Read more...]
Insipid rom-com ‘Lolo’ a step back for Delpy
Dany Boon, Julie Delpy and Vincent Lacoste in Lolo. It’s tempting to associate Julie Delpy entirely with Celine, the smart, clever, magnetically appealing and mostly uncompromising modern woman whose maturation we’ve witnessed, over three films and 18 years, in Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy. To preserve my own faith in humanity, I’ll need to hold on to this delusion … [Read more...]