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Certainly different from any other Desplechin film I have watched over the years, but no less intriguing. The love he has for his hometown and its inhabitants are undoubtedly palpable. Desplechin is a master storyteller and humanist. The film is a very moving experience.

Everybody knows Captain Weiss, from doormen to bartenders to dancers to musicians to club owners to shadowy underworld figures. He makes his nightly rounds with quiet assurance and understated authority, negotiating deals, solving problems, doing favors, and occasionally receiving...

France already has one high profile nightclub set crime thriller on the horizon with Toronto film fest hit Sleepless Night but, proving that 'parallel development' isn't just an American phenomenon, there's also a second on the way in Philippe Lefebvre's...

Baya Benmahmoud is one young girl who takes the phrase "Make love, not war" to its logical extreme. If that phrase sounds familiar to you, it merely means that you've read at least one of the many, many domestic reviews...