From its title to the age-defying friendship at its core, the French import My Afternoons With Margueritte has the Chicken Soup odor of Tuesdays With Morrie. Directed by movie-of-the-week sentimentalist Jean Becker (Conversations With My Gardener), it follows a similar emotional journey as Mitch Albom’s breakthrough, charting the developing relationship between a lonely, … [Read more...]
This ‘Valentine’ is too sweet even for the day
Who wouldn’t want to live in the antiseptic fantasyland of Garry Marshall’s Valentine’s Day? Ostensibly set in Los Angeles on Valentine’s Day, it’s a world in which women wake up in full makeup, irate motorists yell obscenities like “heck,” airport guards shrug off security breaches if the breacher is an attractive young romantic, and the meteorologists tap-dance the weather … [Read more...]