Film Reviews by Joanne Laurier
George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky: Not doing a good job of looking after the planet
By Joanne Laurier, 13 January 2021
The Midnight Sky, a post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by George Clooney, is done with some care and sensitivity, but ends up primarily as an exercise in resignation.
Once Upon a River: A Native American girl wanders the waterways
By Joanne Laurier, 6 January 2021
The movie follows a Native American teenager through various trials and tribulations. Set in western Michigan in the 1970s, Once Upon a River recounts the adolescent’s supposed emotional education.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Accattone (1961) and the “passion for life, for reality”
By Joanne Laurier, 19 July 2017
Accattone is the story of Rome’s “subproletariat,” in Pasolini’s phrase, and its plight, dramatically concentrated in the “Passion” of one impoverished man.
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