Philippe Katerine

A French couple burnt out by the routine of their daily family life decides after much hesitation to travel to Sicily for a short holiday.Read More »

Paul Château-Têtard, 48, falls in love with a young woman working as a counter clerk in the subway. After he marries her, his mother launches a private detective on her tracks to prove she’s cheating on her son.Read More »

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The movie begins with a startling, intimate sex scene. A hefty middle-aged man is making love with an attractive middle-aged woman. He is avidly concerned with bringing her to orgasm, each one worries that the other is worried that the other is taking too long—“I feel good. I’m good,” insists one of them— the sex ends in resignation. What’s startling about the scene is not its explicitness, which is not inordinate. It’s the way the characters are framed, in medium closeup, in compositions that emphasis the space between their faces as much if not more than their faces. (One is reminded of Elie Faure’s writing on Velasquez, quoted by Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Pierrot Le Fou.”)Read More »