Bacurau (2019)

This was one of the films I was looking forward to most this year and it’s a shame it’s not received a Perth or Australian release yet. For those who have a VPN, you could stream it from the Criterion Channel. I read up too much on the Brazilian-French co-production Bacurau (2019) and its narrative […]

Donkey Skin (1970)

Donkey Skin (1970; Peau d’âne) is directed by Jacques Demy and apparently was his most successful movie in France, a lavish fairytale starring Catherine Devenue. In contrast to modern fairytales that rely on CGI to create a world of fantasy, this is very old school in its approach, filmed exteriors at an actual castle and […]

Deerskin (2019)

Deerskin (2019; Le Daim) is directed by Quentin Dupieux who is also the electronic musician Mr Oizo and who has for the past decade built up a career as a filmmaker specialising in weird, offbeat fare. His first film, Rubber, which I’ve still not seen, was a meta-horror movie about a rubber tire that could […]

Duelle (1976)

Browsing through the library feature of Mubi, I stumbled across Duelle (1976; Duelle (une quarantaine), directed by Jacques Rivette, and I was drawn in by the plot summary describing a battle between the Daughter Of The Moon (Juliet Berto) and the Daughter Of The Sun (Bulle Ogier). A fantasy battle is embedded in noir styled […]

Le Bonheur (1965)

I didn’t know much about Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur (1965; title translates as “Happiness”) before I started watching it except for the title credit image of the hetreosexual nuclear family blurred in the distance while a sunflower is in the foreground and noted comparisons to The Stepford Wives. It’s all about Francois (Jean-Claude Drouot) who […]