Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

Jean Gabin and Julien Carette in La Bête Humaine Jacques Lantier : Jean Gabin Séverine Roubaud : Simone Simon Roubaud : Fernand Ledoux...

Pleasure, as the poets never tire of telling us, is inextricable from pain.   Le Plaisir is an anthology film dramatizing three stories b...

Love supposedly makes the world go around, but in La Ronde it's sex that provides the spin. Ophuls and his fellow screenwriter, Jacqu...

Cat People is so fraught with subtext about the fear of female sexuality that it's amazing that critics once treated it as a mere ...