The Films of Pierre Clémenti

Perhaps best known for his role in Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour, Clémenti the actor was also an ardent creator who sought to explore cinema's intrinsic connection with the subconscious, a relationship often made literal in his distinctly, deliberately avant-garde works. Hindsight sees these films as distinct creations of their time, ready to be dismissed by those who see only the counterculture elements long since rendered cliché.

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Killers

Much like director Robert Luketic's previous films, Killers is paint-by-numbers filmmaking scrubbed clean of even the faintest puff of creativity, here making for an unfortunately banal foundation, but one nevertheless elevated, somewhat amazingly, by the sharp comedic rapport and genuine chemistry of its leads.

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Iron Man 2

Arguably the saddest thing about Iron Man 2 isn’t the fact that it fails, in an altogether underwhelming way, to live up to the success (creative, not financial) of its predecessor, but that it does so for reasons of the purely misguided sort. On paper, Iron Man 2 should work, but on screen, it unfolds as a movie without a singular connective vision, lurching forward in fits and spurts as it strains itself to recapture the blend of drama, comedy and action that was bestowed so effortlessly on the original.

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