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“Ismael’s Ghosts” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

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Ismael’s Ghosts (2018; Arnaud Desplechin) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, April 20, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Lark Theater in Larkspur. When I reviewed Arnaud Desplechin’s lovely My Golden Days in April 2016, I made the somewhat embarrassing admission that it was […]

MVFF37, Day 9 – “You Had Me, I Never Had You”

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When 25-year-old French Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan accepted a Jury Prize at last May’s Cannes Film Festival, he told jury chair Jane Campion, “Your Piano made me want to write roles for women…beautiful women with soul and will and strength, not victims, not objects.”  Saturday at the Mill […]