Weekend Film Reviews
Telluride Film Festival Picks
Love at first sight can be as dangerous as it is exciting, and the sme goes for love at first screening. I fell hard and heedlessly for a film called An Education, which happened to be the first of 14 films I managed to see in the course of three movie-besotted days at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend... (Joe also reviews A Prophet, The Last Station, Bright Star and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.)
By Joe Morgenstern • • 3m ListenLove at first sight can be as dangerous as it is exciting, and the sme goes for love at first screening. I fell hard and heedlessly for a film called An Education, which happened to be the first of 14 films I managed to see in the course of three movie-besotted days at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend...
Most of the movies at Telluride were meant to entertain, but Jacques Audiard's A Prophet stretches the concept of entertainment by taking us into the brutish world of a French prison...
Literary legends come to life in Michael Hoffman's The Last Station, a superb -- and really entertaining -- evocation of Tolstoy's last months on earth, and Jane Campion's Bright Star, which dramatizes the relationsip between the Romantic poet John Keats and his shy young neighbor Fanny Brawne...
If a prize had been given for the most awkward title...it might have gone to Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans...
Banner image: Cary Mulligan in An Education. Photo: Kerry Brown/Sony Classic Pictures