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Claude LeLouche’s 1966 A MAN AND A WOMAN is a simple story about a widow (Anouk Aimée) and a widower (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who fall in love. While the plot and characters are not in and of themselves that profound the two charming and extremely photogenic leads shot in gorgeous settings is more than enough. There is a lot of music and songs including a fine samba sung by Pierre Barouh. Fran...

In Steven Soderbergh’s THE CHRISTOPHERS the children of a once famous artist hire a forger to complete some unfinished, long ago abandoned canvases so they'll have an inheritance when he dies. Michaela Coel plays the forger and Ian McKellen the artist and the film is basically a dialog between the two. Both give marvelous performances. Set mostly in the artist’s rambling messy house this environ...

Honestly I am not sure what to make of Kristoffer Borgli’s THE DRAMA which I think may well be the intent. The film begins in a light mode following rom-com cliches including a cute meet. A couple (Zendaya and Robert Pattinson) only a few days short of their wedding have their lives and plans knocked wildly eschew when the bride reveals a very terrible secret from her past. From this point on I...