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Feb 21, 2023 · ‘The Plough’ Review: Director Philippe Garrel’s Very French Family Affair. The 74-year-old auteur's latest stars his own three children — Louis Garrel, Esther Garrel and Lena Garrel — in...
Feb 24, 2023 · Garrel’s latest movie, The Plough (Le Grand Chariot), is bound to be another divisive entry in the filmmaker's filmography, as the director builds a story that’s too slow and auto-referential...
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Feb 24, 2023 · ‘The Plough’ Review: A Low-Stakes Trifle for Philippe Garrel Fans and Family Members Only. Garrel casts his own actor children as the scions of a French puppeteering troupe facing major...
The Plough Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Rory O'Connor The Film Stage. A briskly charming, bracingly anachronistic, sometimes achingly sensual film. Full...
Feb 26, 2023 · In The Plough, though, Garrel tones down the pathos and exaggerates the humor, mostly through the figure of an increasingly senile grandmother and the depiction of Pieter as a pathetically self-obsessed, failed artist.
MOVIE REVIEW The Plough (2023) By SARAH MANVEL. A movie about three generations of a family running their own puppet theater in Paris is an unusual setting for exploring how a person chooses their life.
In just 97 minutes, the veteran French director dares to ask: Why make separate movies about death, love, camaraderie and destiny when you can combine all those themes into one product? The result is a meandering and unfulfilling portrait of a haphazard family.