Collections/April 2024

Two by Bertrand Bonello

Featuring an interview with Bonello, part of Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series The audacious, coolly spellbinding films of French virtuoso Bertrand Bonello—whose The Beast is currently rampaging toward an art-house theater near you—first seduce with their sleekly stylized surfaces, then pull the rug out from under you with their subversive, provocatively open-ended critiques of capitalism, colonialism, and bourgeois decadence. From a luxurious Parisian brothel of House of Pleasures to the shopping mall transformed into a hideout for a band of teenage terrorists in Nocturama , Bonello stages his daring visions within meticulously constructed, subtly surreal worlds that he then sets into motion with the mesmerizing, balletic precision of a master choreographer.

2 films — 0 on the Channel, 2 unavailable