Benoît Jacquot’s Farewell, My Queen, a soapy, sexy, and lezzie adaptation of Chantal Thomas’s 2003 novel about the chaos at Versailles on the eve of the 1789 revolution, is told not through the vantage point of the monarchs but through the eyes of Sidonie (Léa Seydoux), the besotted reader to…

In just two feature films, writer/director Joachim Trier has proven to be unparalleled in exposing the foibles and delusions of all the sad young literary men. The 20-something character played by Anders Danielsen Lie in Reprise (2006) finds immediate cult success with his first novel, only to suffer a breakdown…

Sarah Polley’s second feature, Take This Waltz, thoughtfully probes the pitfalls of coupledom and third-party threats. Five years into their marriage, Torontonians Margot (Michelle Williams) and Lou (Seth Rogen) have regressed fully into sexlessness — heat and mystery having been supplanted by baby-talking, bathroom-oversharing, and weirdly aggressive verbal game-playing. For…

If you lined up to see Darling Companion, in which Diane Keaton loves her dog more than she loves her husband, at this year’s Miami International Film Festival, it’s likely because you wanted to catch a film with plenty of Cute Overload-appropriate footage. Sadly, that movie made the mistake of…