Category Archive for: ‘Issue 43 – Classics & Re-runs’

What I admire is that I have no desire to reread the story on which the film is based: an unfinished novel of Dostoyevsky’s, for which Benoît got the idea from a reading by [Moustapha] Safouan. However, I will go to the tale, which everyone is familiar with: namely, that Dostoyevsky was tormented by a young girl. I pass over …

Becker has dared to see his script for what it is: nothing … None of the episodes are dramatically necessary. If we try to tell the story, we soon see that it is composed of nothing but aborted, thwarted, and interrupted actions. – André Bazin, 1953 [1] Fine Form Two men arrive at an apartment building, to intimidate, beat up …