By Robert Koehler
Even the Rain is a Ken Loach film directed by Iciar Bollain. Even more, it’s a film by Paul Laverty, Loach’s regular screenwriter. The film is a useful object in this regard: By watching Even the Rain (in Palm Springs because of its status as Spain’s foreign language Oscar submission), it’s clearer than [...]
Entries from January 2011
Searching for Palm Springs 3
January 8th, 2011 by Robert Koehler · 1 Comment
Categories: Film festival
Searching for Palm Springs 2
January 8th, 2011 by Robert Koehler · 1 Comment
By Robert Koehler
Missing a film for eleven months since its premiere, particularly if it won an overrated but nevertheless weighty prize like Berlinale’s Golden Bear, can create an odd mix of sensations, with frustration (how I missed it in Berlin in the first place) to excessive anticipation (from the sheer wait). It can’t be allowed [...]
Categories: Film festival
Searching for Palm Springs
January 7th, 2011 by Robert Koehler · No Comments
By Robert Koehler
Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Francois Ozon–the ideal trio combo to launch the latest edition of the aggressively middlebrow Palm Springs Film Festival, which promotes a certain brand of world cinema that continues to view Europe as the center of the world. And if it stars Deneuve, all the better. The film? You may [...]
Categories: Film festival