THE YOUNG LIEUTENANT
Xavier Beauvois France, 2005
Before he won acclaim for Of Gods and Men, French actor-turned-director Xavier Beauvois scored with this excellent, layered police drama, featuring an award-winning performance from Nathalie Baye.
Before he won acclaim for Of Gods and Men, French actor-turned-director Xavier Beauvois scored with this excellent, layered police drama, featuring an award-winning performance from Nathalie Baye.
The third of a very fruitful on-going collaboration between French director Benoît Jacquot and young actress (and great director in her own right) Isild Le Besco, this gorgeous black and white paean to a post-New Wave era is an excited and poetic exploration of a youthful, searching free spirit.
Unraveling the fabric of cinema in the style of Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep, Nobuhiro Suwa’s inventive restaging of Hiroshima mon amour delicately walks the tightrope between performance and reality. Béatrice Dalle lights up the screen with a captivating reinterpretation of her volatile star persona.