When is there too much of a good thing? This question looms over Olivier Assayas’s exhaustively intelligent Non-Fiction, a zeitgeist-targeted ensemble comedy stuffed with so many statements about the Way We Live Now that we can hardly be expected to process them all. Assayas’ script is like a torrent of Snapchat missives that disappear into the nether, to be replaced by the … [Read more...]
‘Personal Shopper’: An unsettling search for (a) spirit
Since the dawn of cinema, movies have been trying to visualize and elucidate the paranormal: This is a vampire, a demon, a ghost, a loved one visiting from the Other Side. This is how they act, this is what they want and — most importantly for audiences seeking closure — this is how they can be defeated/assuaged/comforted. Olivier Assayas’ polarizing Cannes sensation … [Read more...]