As for Hélène, she lived to see the French defeated in 1954 by the Vietnamese and their allies, ceding all claims to the territories that had been French Indochina. This marked the beginning of major US involvement in Vietnam, and of the proxy war between the US-backed South and the ...
Ava Duvernay has been so ever-present in the public eye that it’s wild to think this is her first feature film in five years, not to mention her first drama — the genre she truly excels at — in nearly a decade. She adapts Isabel Wilkerson’s monumental nonfiction studyCasteas a c...
Two of the album’s finest moments occur in “La peur du noir” (Fear of the dark), which expresses itself through a nervous heart murmur of solo accordion, and in “L’accident,” a two-part fragmentation of the film’s underlying tensions that works its corkscrew into a bottle long e...