The Woman and the Puppet: On Abel Ferrara’s ‘New Rose Hotel’
“Her power lies in her opaqueness.”
“Her power lies in her opaqueness.”
“This is a love story expressed through gaping structural absences.”
“Like his characters, Demy’s camera in ‘Lola’ moves everywhere but goes nowhere; it’s a paradoxically headlong hesitation.”
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
“Youth is central to Violette, and Isabelle Huppert’s petite frame and almost childlike features lend the film a skewed point of view that is coloured neither by experience or shame.”