After that brashly meta opener, you might expect a smartly constructed Tarantino - style black comedy of retribution, but the film fails to deliver on that promise, devolving instead into a dispiriting tonal mishmash of mean - spirited revenge fantasy, girl -
power romantic fantasy, and comedy so broad it tips into caricature.
Not exact matches
Also in 1996, Akerman directed what might be described as her penultimate attempt at a «commercial» feature film, the light
romantic fantasy Un divan à New York (A Couch in New York), starring William Hurt and Juliette Binoche, which despite its star
power sat on the shelf for a while, before opening quietly at Anthology film Archives in Manhattan in November, 1997.
Her latest book is Glazier, a
romantic fantasy adventure novel with espionage, genetic
powers, underground bases and a ginger beauty with memory issues that take you on a ride that begins in Vermont and comes to a head in Egypt.