Lux Æterna first published by Little White Lies, as entry 154 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “You are all in good health, but you cannot imagine the supreme happiness an epileptic feels in the moments before a fit. I would give perhaps my whole life in exchange for a few seconds of that felicity.” This…
Tag: Béatrice Dalle
Inside (À l’intérieur) (2007)
Inside (À l’intérieur) first published by Little White Lies “I was in labour for 12 hours with my first. Shit, I didn’t half fucking suffer! And all for nothing. Stillborn.” This anecdote, tactlessly related to a heavily pregnant Sarah (Alysson Paradis) by a (smoking) nurse on Christmas Eve, the day before Sarah is due to…
You and the Night (Les rencontres d'après minuit) (2013)
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks By night, everything becomes obscured, abstracted, reduced to invisible concepts. It’s a time for intimate liaisons, supernatural hauntings, criminal activities, midnight movies and deep, dark dreams. It’s also the setting for Yann Gonzalez’s strikingly stylised debut You and the Night, which combines all of these elements in a genre-savvy…