A perfect examination of human nature, and Isabelle Huppert’s ass.

All men are guilty.

When Lee Marvin asks if you want two lumps with your coffee, he’s not talking about sugar.

Hobson chooses to surrender his genitalia.

Jean-Pierre Melville’s immaculate game of chess.

A powerful historical film, as well as an allegory for any nation that grappled with a totalitarian past. Or flirts with one at present.

Luis Bunuel was obsessed with ritual and fetish, but he managed to harness them for his art; perhaps selecting embrace rather than denial is what saved him from self-destruction. Social conventions are part of the learned behaviors that members of a society use to relate to one another, but they can also become a languid…