Let me start this tale the way I always start this tale, because the formative experience is the one that provides a key to the final meaning: “Transformation is a powerful thing. The first time I ...

In late-19th-century London, Esther Kahn, daughter of Jewish migrants, lives in the East End and toils with them in the family sweatshop. Esther is slow and stubborn, she never has an opinion about ...

(indieWIRE/ 02.27.02) — French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin first came into the public eye in 1996, when his second film “My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument,” a soap operatic look at ...

With her dark complexion, slightly shifty eyes, and cold, austere demeanor, Summer Phoenix has a screen presence that's simultaneously distancing and transfixing, an inscrutability that makes her seem ...

A bristling hybrid of nature documentary and philosophy dissertation, Esther Kahn essentially casts an East End wild child in the role of Nietzschean superman. As played by Summer Phoenix, aspiring ...