Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation for what has been called artistic license or dishonesty...
The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Commonly regarded as the founder of social realism, he also...
MARYAM Written and directed by Ramin Serry Streetlight Angelika Opens February 22 Cousins can exert a strange fascination-a peer group more exotic than siblings, they're a remote mirror for one's own experience. Maryam is a story of cousinly love set against...
Claude Chabrol hasn't been heard from much lately. Now he is back with Betty, based on a Georges Simenon novel. Betty, an attractive, 28-year-old, obviously affluent woman, sporting a strange look - is it hostile, preoccupied, weirdly detached, downright crazy? - finds herself, drunk...
