Celebrate Juliette Binoche's birthday with LET THE SUNSHINE IN
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
Binoche always elevates whatever film she is in, but her leading role in the 2017 film Let the Sunshine In, is one of her career-best performances.
The Truth
Written and directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring Catherin Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke
MPAA rating: PG for thematic and suggestive elements, and for smoking and brief language
Running time: 1 hour and 46 minutes
by Ryan Smillie
After Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters (2018), his compassionate masterpiece about a makeshift family living on the margins of an unnamed Japanese city, it might have been reasonable to guess that his next film would continue his two-decade-long exploration of the fringes of Japanese society. Instead, The Truth, his follow-up feature, sees Kore-eda leaving his usual milieu to capture the tense reunion of a famed French actress and her screenwriter daughter (French film titans Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, in their first on-screen appearance together). Kore-eda’s first film set outside of Japan and not filmed in Japanese, The Truth is clearly distinct from the rest of his filmography, but lacks none of the heart and emotional complexity that make his films so moving.
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Written and directed by Claire Denis
Starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche and André Benjamin
Running Time: 1 hour and 50 minutes
MPAA rating: R for disturbing sexual and violent content including sexual assault, graphic nudity, and for language
by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy
I went into this film knowing only that it was about Monte, who is a father played by Robert Pattinson, and his daughter surviving alone in deep space and that it was directed by Claire Denis. Ok. Now look at the MPAA rating reasoning up above. Perhaps add to it that, in addition to the humans, there are animals in some dire conditions that don’t turn out so great either. These graphic depictions aren’t done without reason and aren’t gratuitous, but they exist and it’s worth warning people if they aren’t up for that sort of thing. These are probably the only things you really need to know going into this.
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