A Brief Affair

Lea and Rocco (Pilar Fogliati, Adriano Giannini) meet in a bar and embark on an affair, even though they’re both married; soon, Lea starts crossing lines. This may sound like…

Random Harvest: Deconstructing Smithy

Greer Garson and Ronald Colman. Photo: MGM It didn’t take long for James Hilton’s novel to be filmed. After all, two previous books he wrote became highly successful movies, Lost…

”Wuthering Heights”

Emerald Fennell’s highly touted adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel has much to offer for the eye and ear, in terms of Charli XCX’s song score and Linus Sandgren’s dark,…

Pillion

After giving a handsome biker (Alexander Skarsgård) a blow job in an alley, shy Colin (Harry Melling) embarks on a BDSM relationship with him; his parents struggle to understand the…

Love Mates: An Angel Playing with My Heart

Jarl Kulle and Christina Schollin. Photo: Sandrews I’m currently in the middle of my summer vacation, and happened to come across this little gem; it’s been years since I saw…

Office Romance

In spite of a strict rule against romantic relationships among colleagues at a major airline, CEO Jackie Cruz (Jennifer Lopez) and one of her attorneys (Brett Goldstein) fall in love.…

Eiffel

What inspired Gustave Eiffel to build his great tower in the heart of Paris in the late 1800s? The answer to that question is not really what we learn in…

Lovers on the Bridge: Citizens of Pont Neuf

Juliette Binoche and Denis Lavant. Photo: Gaumont It’s the kind of troubled film project that generates not one but two different documentaries telling the story of how it was made;…

The Drama

While testing which wine to choose for the upcoming wedding between Emma and Charlie (Zendaya, Robert Pattinson), they get drunk together with the maid of honor and the best man…

A Man and a Woman: Romance for the Ages

Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Photo: Les Films 13 ”Claude Lelouch, remember this name well, because you will not hear it again”. That was the cruel verdict of the classic…