Tag: vincent lindon

“The Diary of a Chambermaid” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

By Daniel Barnes on June 16, 2016

The Diary of a Chambermaid (2016; Benoît Jacquot) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, June 17, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Rialto Elmwood in Berkeley. Lea Seydoux stars in this fourth film adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s infamous 1900 novel (Renoir and Buñuel […]

“The Measure of a Man” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

By Daniel Barnes on June 2, 2016

The Measure of a Man (2016; Stéphane Brizé) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes Impotent resistance versus soul-sucking compliance in the bloody coliseum of capitalism. Human dignity loses either way. Vincent Lindon won the Best Actor prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival for his work here as Thierry, […]