Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Percival, long a favorite of Olivier Pere's at the Quinzaine, are now at Locarno, which Raya Martin last night aptly termed "Super Quinzaine." (I then chimed back, "Quinzaine on Steroids.") The cinema of Klotz, who handles the mise-en-scène of his films and co-writes the scripts with Percival, who directs the actors—not unlike the division of labors between the Coen brothers—divides audiences and critics for as far back as I was following the couple's cinema, to their brilliant La blessure (2004) the second in their La trilogie des temps moderne which started with Paria (2000) which I've never seen. Even though the trilogy's final film, La question humaine a.k.a. Heartbeat Detector was loved by many at its 2007 Quinzaine premiere, it split critics into factions, being viewed as everything from "dryly limp satire [that] ends as cruel and unusual punishment" (Slant's Ed Gonzalez) to the Guardian's Steve Rose...
- 8/10/2011
- MUBI
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