Vogue’s picks this weekend lean heavily toward film and will especially please any Francophiles out there.
on the film’s fresh take on Regency England. “With period pieces, I’m always interested in there being a connection between then and now,” the director, Carrie Cracknell, toldin June. “I think period films often teach you as much about the moment they were made in as they do the moment that they’re replicating, somehow.” So what are you waiting for? Come to your own conclusions after watching this weekend.
“Where the potboiler would inevitably culminate in a moment of murderous revenge, Denis chooses a violence of emotion and language that forces her characters to bear the responsibilities of their decisions with a quiet desperation,” Morse wrote. “What remains is a subdued, almost dream-like collision of brutality, language, and eroticism that reads as both suspenseful and philosophical.”Lesley Manville as Mrs.
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