Topic: Karin Viard

Ask Mick LaSalle

0 . Dear Mick: In answering a reader's question about a female actress who can sing, dance, and do comedy and drama, how could you ignore Amy...

Ask Mick LaSalle: Amy Adams vs. Bette Midler

0 View Larger Image . Dear Mick: In answering a reader's question about a female actress who can sing, dance, and do comedy and drama, how could...

Change of Plans

Depending on whom you ask, French cinema either remains the art house's cr?me de la cr?me or is currently coasting on past glories. Advocates will point to several filmmakers consistently churning out vital, vibrant work (je t'aime, Claire ...

Hell

Danis Tanovic's Hell is highly disappointing, the second in a trilogy coscripted by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski and his regular collaborator, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with Purgatory still to come. The first, Heaven, was a dismal affair starring Cate Blanchett as a terrorist ...

A satire that fails to satisfy

American Dreamz (107 mins, 12A) Directed by Paul Weitz; starring Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Willem Dafoe, Marcia Gay HardenHell (102 mins, 15) Directed by Danis Tanovic; starring Emmanuelle B& #233;art, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain, Jacques PerrinTony Takitani (75 mins, U) Directed ...