Esther Kahn

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Audience Member If you are a student of the arts, this is a must see film. An unusual story with tremendous attention to detail, marvelous cinematography, subtle but powerful dialog, wonderful questions and themes, and Summer Phoenix is a delightful actress playing an actress! This is what I consider strong art. (Sadly it seems few people have seen this film.) Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member "Is this some sort of satire?", one must ask. Desplechin's film resists every chance to shed light on its character, but instead relies on ridiculous "star-was-born" myths to sustain the story. This audience laughs, feels amused, not knowing if this is an ode to acting myth, a parody of period pieces, or if it's (also very likely) an extrapolation of class struggle. Admittedly, Desplechin must be a study of Jacques Rivette, but Rivette was interested in sincerity, while Desplechin was not. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Wow. I'm not entirely sure if this is a ****1/2 film. Perhaps it is more or less but this is a completely major piece of filmmaking. It is long, it is unruly, it is uneven, it is fairly brilliant. Desplechin's mise-en-scene creates a world remembered, and his attention to period detail (which IMMERSES you in 19th London) leaves no doubt that the memory is personable. Summer Phoenix's performance is a strange one, blank like an alien's but intentionally so such that her register is unnerving. The narrative is a simple one. Now she is empty, now she is full. Esther Kahn is an out-of-body experience that I am still sorting out. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Différent des Desplechin que je connaissais. Beaucoup aimé le personnage et sa façon de voir le monde. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member This film was way too tedious and long for a extremely simple concept: the rise and fall of a theater actress. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member "Esther kahn" est long. Long comme une gestation qui n'enfinirait pas d'arriver à son terme. Embryon,Esther est une petite chose insignifiante, improbable. Lorsque foetus, elle s'accroche à cette vie dont elle ignore tout, Esther devient étrange, prometteuse. La veille de sa naissance son cordon ombilical a failli l'étrangler et c'est finalement dans la douleur qu'Esther découvre la lumiere. Domage que Desplechin ait rate cette naissance. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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