This week, a film that was a wonderful surprise rather than the big disappointment that was “Moonrise Kingdom.” I went to see Julie Delpy’s “2 Days in New York” on a whim: the employee at the ticket desk at the Odeon Covent Garden actually tried to talk me out of it. She thought I would prefer “Jeff Who Lives At Home”: although she hadn’t seen it, she had seen “2 Days in New York” and didn’t like it. Happily, like any self-respecting film critic, I had to see the film for myself. On a side note, bravo, Odeon Covent Garden, for being a bright spark in an overall grim world of chain cinemas: tastes may differ, but the people who work there clearly have a genuine interest in auteur cinema. When I went to see “Moonrise Kingdom” there, the man who sold me the ticket was counting the...
- 6/27/2012
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
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