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On Saturday, the UCA at Sardent offer three screenings of the film Le Beau Serge at l’Espace Claude Chabrol. A film shot here at the end of the 50s. Thomas Chabrol revisits the genesis of this film, and the attachment of his family to the Creuse.
“Breathless,” the iconic movie that helped jumpstart the New Wave film movement in the late 50s and early 60s, has been given a glorious 4K restoration that…
If you, like me, are a cult film aficionado, you might work yourself into an unnecessary dither upon seeing a new psychological thriller about hitchhikers with the title Road Games. If this movie title means nothing to you, do not panic. Heck, you should take deep breaths through your mouth even if you do worship the superb 1981 Hitchcock homage of the same name (starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis). The new Road Games, writer/director Abner Pastoll s sophomore feature, has very little to do with the earlier movie of the same name. This film s title is just an artful tip of the cap to a primary influence. Pastoll s project is, unlike many contemporary indie thrillers, genuinely moody in parts since it was filmed by people who want to put you on edge just by focusing on desolate back roads, creaking floorboards, and circuitous conversations. So yes, you can enjoy Road Games even if you aren t a gorehound. I wish I could recommend Road Games beyond that though, since