Homemade Lemon Cake

I watched this on a plane en rout home from a very restful vacation. I had just had a joint replacement in my dominant arm, which was bori...

I watched this on Kanopy, which is a streaming service that your library might subscribe to, and has some really great films you might not ...

This is a biopic about a mostly young Yves Saint Laurent, although there are somewhat distracting flashes forward and backwards towards th...

There is a lot to unpack in this Oscar nominated movie.  It takes a riff from Victor Hugo’s majestically sprawling account of poverty and...

This is a charming animated movie by Bibo Bergeron, known for his adaption of the wonderful book 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret' in...

This is yet another movie about the end of one's life--I seem to be watching a lot of movies of late that involve actors who are at or...

Germain (Gerard Depardieu) is a man with very low self esteem.  As the movie unfolds we have no trouble seeing why that might be.  His mot...

This is a feel good movie from start to finish.  It has elements of Pygmalion.  It has some rags to riches components.  It is wise and fun...

First and foremost, do not think about this as a light romantic comedy.  It is super serious, sobering, and disturbing.  The director is i...

This is a French movie by a Finnish director, and it has a charming   Buster Keaton deadpan humor kind of feel about it.   The wo...

Huge spoiler alert!   There is no way to respond to this movie without giving away a central element of the plot—which we learn about 7...

This is a movie of the genre of French films that is really not about anything in particular. At the end, you are left wondering why stop...

This petite movie was an Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature Film last year--such a charming and different departure from the slick an...

This is a very French, very romantic, and wryly funny film starring Yvan Attal as himself and his very lovely wife, Charlotte Gainsbourg a...

I loved this movie--and I love the place that the movie is set in.  Some of our closest friends have a sheep farm and make farmstead cheese...

This movie will not suit everyone. It is a great example of what movies on disc and cable TV have brought in terms of breadth to the aver...

If you don't like movies with limited dialogue and smoldering emotions, run, do not walk, away from this movie. It is the sort of r...

The French really have this genre down. They've been making funny and agreeable movie farces for forever, and I for one never tire of...

This is it.  This movie is what I love about French romantic comedies. Painfully shy man meets overanxious woman.  They share a passion fo...

I was recently at a wonderful family gathering in Baltimore. En route to the East Coast, I got delayed for quite a few hours in Chicago (i...