Osburnt: Dispatches From a Life Seared by the Arts

  • Antigone

    Antigone

    ANTIGONE is the most sedate of the productions I have seen directed by Ivo van Hove, but it might be the most deeply thought-provoking. There is little to be gained from it without thought. It hasn’t the sadism of his Hedda Gabler, the pain of his Cries and Whispers, the angst of his Scenes from…

  • Clouds of Sils Maria

    Clouds of Sils Maria

    In CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA the personal assistant played by Kristen Stewart holds the life together of the famous actor played by Juliette Binoche. It is admittedly surprising to realize, upon reflection, that Stewart herself, a good but still developing actor, also holds the film together, even though Binoche is, including in this film, among…

  • Elles

    Elles

    I went to this for Juliette Binoche, who is my choice for the finest international film actress of her generation. She does not disappoint. But ELLES, even though it traverses familiar thematic territory, is worth seeing in its own right. Binoche plays a journalist who is interviewing female university students who make ends meet working…