This week on The Movie Gourmet – new reviews of Sweetheart Deal and Evil Does Not Exist.
CURRENT MOVIES
- Sweetheart Deal: a triumph of cinéma vérité. In arthouse theaters.
- Kneecap: sláinte! Amazon, AppleTV.
- Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid!: rascal truth-teller. In theaters.
- In the Summers: they mature, he evolves. In arthouse theaters.
- Will & Harper: old friends adjust. Netflix.
- Made in England: The films of Powell and Pressberger: Scorsese’s film class. In theaters, but increasingly hard to find.
- Wolfs: two charming stars and a chase. AppleTV.
- Megalopolis: pretentious, cartoonish, incoherent. In theaters.
- Tokyo Cowboy: he came, he saw, he changed. In arthouse theaters, but hard to find.
- Didi: learning to get out of his own way. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Mother Couch: obstreperous mom, surreal situation. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Evil Does Not Exist: not so mesmerizing. Amazon, AppleTV, Criterion.
ON TV
On October 22, Turner Classic Movies will be broadcasting one of the great movies that you have likely NOT seen, having just been released on DVD in 2009: The Earrings of Madame de… (1953). Max Ophuls directed what is perhaps the most visually evocative romance ever in black and white. It’s worth seeing for the ballroom scene alone. The shallow and privileged wife of a stick-in-the-mud general takes a lover, but the earrings she pawned reveal the affair and consequences ensue. The great Italian director Vittorio De Sica plays the impossibly handsome lover.