Plus, the lure of "Bergman Island."
So many movies are being released this week, it's hard to know where to start. That's one sign that the fall season is shifting into high gear. Another is that several of the movies are critic's picks. |
Manohla Dargis writes approvingly that with "The Last Duel," Ridley Scott "has directed what may be the big screen's first medieval feminist revenge saga." The plot of Mia Hansen-Love's "Bergman Island" may seem slight — a screenwriting couple stays at the home of the great Swedish filmmaker — but A.O. Scott finds it "slippery and enchanting." Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy" is also on the unassuming side, but Dargis describes this talkathon, in which men and women circle one another, as wistful and moving. |
What are readers talking about this week? To judge by the lively comments, it's Dave Itzkoff's interview with Selma Blair, the subject of a new documentary about her life with multiple sclerosis. The neurological disease can affect her voice and her ability to walk, among other symptoms. She says that since she went public with the diagnosis, she's been offered roles for aging or disabled characters: "I might be those things, but I'm still everything else I was before, and I shouldn't be relegated to that." |
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