Emma Wilson
Viva Varda!
She Did It Her Way
“Viva Varda!,” at the Cinémathèque Française, represents yet another first for the late, beloved French filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928–2019): this is the first exhibition the Cinémathèque has devoted to the work of a woman filmmaker (the first solo show on … Read More
La Vie d’Adèle, Chapitres 1 et 2
Blue on Blue, Heartache on Heartache
In La Vie d’Adèle, Chapitres 1 et 2 (Blue Is the Warmest Color), director Abdellatif Kechiche lets the drama of a teenage girl’s first love – with another young woman – unfold full-scale, giving her the destiny and physical vibrancy … Read More
The Cult of Nostalgia
Mapping Stories of Love and Longing in Paris
In the “Quatrième Partie” of The Cult of Nostalgia, Bruce Bruschi’s elegiac first novel, the heroine, Carly, an American in Paris, comes to a cutting realization. Left by a lover of seven years, she suddenly faces his lack of feeling … Read More