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See “Hannah Arendt” for the Sukowa, If Not the Full Story

Michael van Baker — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:13:37 +0000

For Arendt, Eichmann was an edge case that demonstrated how normal people could not think about the Holocaust as it occurred. Here was a man whose job it was to know, and who nonetheless could, burying himself in the minutiae of genocide, feel no remorse as a consequence of his actions.

“The Prey,” a Hyperactive Action-Thriller from France [Review]

Michael van Baker — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:15:48 +0000

Albert Dupontel plays Franck Adrien, who's knocked over a bank for a cool two million euro (that's 2.6 million U.S.!), and is trying to wait out his sentence without being killed in prison by an impatient partner (or Russians, because they will kill you, that's how they are).

In Farewell, My Queen, They Do Not Eat Cake

Margaret Higginson — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:13:27 +0000

Farewell, My Queen, the new film from Benoît Jacquot, showing at Seven Gables in Seattle, is lush and atmospheric. Based on Chantal Thomas's 2003 novel, it focuses on Marie Antoinette (played flawlessly by Diane Kruger) and her reader, Sidonie (a sultry and calculating Léa Seydoux), in the days immediately surrounding the build-up of the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille.