Tag Archives: Léa Seydoux

One Fine Morning review — Léa Seydoux charms in lovely French film

February 23, 2023 flawintheiris

Original Title: Un Beau Matin | Written and Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve | 112 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | Crave A version of this review appeared on the blog from the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival It's hard to say something feels like a quintessential representative of a national cinema without sounding condescending or trite —… Read More

One Fine Morning, Broker reviews #TIFF22

September 16, 2022 flawintheiris

One Fine Morning aka Un Beau Matin | Written and Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve | 112 min Having enjoyed Hansen-Løve's Things To Come and most recent Swedish set, Bergman Island, I was still unprepared for how much I adored her brand new picture. It's unabashedly French with its Paris locations and story of a modern… Read More

Crimes of the Future review — Long Live the New Sex

June 14, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by David Cronenberg | 107 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | Crave Can we say now, while he's still with us and making movies at this standard, that David Cronenberg is the greatest filmmaker our national cinema has ever produced? I mean, the mountain of evidence is towering. If you go back more than… Read More

The French Dispatch review — I don’t really get it. Still worth seeing, though.

November 1, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson | Written by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugh Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman | 108 min | In Cinemas I've long appreciated Wes Anderson's strange magic. I have plenty of time for his tiny twee classics like Moonrise Kingdom, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and the writer-director's masterpiece, The Grand Budapest Hotel.… Read More

No Time To Die review — Daniel Craig’s final Bond is grand… until it isn’t

October 9, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga | Written by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, Fukunaga, and Phoebe Waller Bridge, based on characters by Ian Fleming | 163 min | Crave It's finally here after more than a year of delays,… Read More

A look back at James Bond 007: the Daniel Craig Era (up to No Time To Die)

October 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Daniel Craig arrived with a flourish typical of a new Bond at a press conference on the banks of the Thames. The actor had proclaimed his tough guy credentials in a zippy crime drama called Layer Cake, and looked comfortable with props (like guns) in Munich, but seemed far from a shoo-in for the role… Read More

Now On Canadian Netflix: January 2020

January 18, 2020 flawintheiris

The Two Popes On the face of it, this strikes me as strange material for Fernando Meirelles to approach. The Brazilian filmmaker responsible for City Of God and The Constant Gardener is a visionary of colour and kinetics, of movement. Why would he choose to tell the story of two senior citizens having a conversation, his… Read More

The Lobster review — Absurdist dystopia brings the yuks (for awhile)

April 27, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos | Written by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou | 118 min | ▲▲▲△△ Imagine a world where single people must check in to a resort hotel and submit to a host of rules—no masturbation, but sexual touching with maids is required. If these singles don't fall in love with another person within… Read More

Spectre review — So Big, So Beautiful, But a Bit Blah

November 7, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Mendes | Written by John Logan, Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, Jez Butterworth, from a story by Logan, Purvis and Wade, based on the Ian Fleming character | 148 min "Bond is back... and this time, it's personal!" This could have been the cheekily lame tagline for each of the four Daniel Craig… Read More

Mission: Impossible series review

July 28, 2015 flawintheiris

My mother loved the 1960s TV series, created by Bruce Gellar. I remember that much about it, and that it starred, at one time or another, Leonard Nimoy, Sam Elliot, Greg Morris, Barbara Bain and Martin Landau—who I knew better as a kid from Space: 1999—and Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, the guy calling the… Read More