on And Just Like That… as the airs its season two finale. (It has yet to be renewed for season three, but here’s hoping.)By all accounts, that took place in a car and was filmed without any other cast members.
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Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Next time someone wistfully insists, “They don’t make ’em like they used to,” why not point that nostalgic cinephile to the work of Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon? The Belgium-based creative couple are almost single-handedly keeping the classic burlesque tradition alive on screen — if the word “single-handedly” can fairly be used to describe a near-silent comic duo with four hands between them, plus a growing company of collaborators (including dancer Kaori Ito) and a prosthetic arm with a mind of its own. In “The Falling Star,” Abel and Gordon bring their old-school comedic sensibility to what could loosely be described as a detective story, told in a film noir style punctuated with flashes of color: a red dress, a tiny green car, a bright yellow scooter.
Centered around a tiny Brussels bar, the pair’s relatively minor new project (a step back from 2017’s sublime “Lost in Paris,” which co-starred screen legends Emmanuele Riva and Pierre Richard) features a missing persons investigation, a sorta-kinda kidnapping, a fugitive couple tired of running and a one-armed assassin. Story-wise, these ingredients can feel a little too complicated at times.
As a springboard for sight gags, however, such eccentricity has its purposes. “The Falling Star” opens with activist-turned-bartender Boris (Abel) unexpectedly being recognized by a man who (it takes a bit of deduction on our part to realize) lost his arm years ago in a blast Boris was responsible for.
Played by Abel and Gordon’s longtime collaborator Bruno Romy, the bearded stranger whips out a gun and takes a shot, missing Boris by a mile. Turns out trusting your trigger finger to a bionic arm isn’t such a great idea in the first of many
.on And Just Like That… as the airs its season two finale. (It has yet to be renewed for season three, but here’s hoping.)By all accounts, that took place in a car and was filmed without any other cast members.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Hozier’s third album, the just-released “Unreal Unearth,” has serious conceptual underpinnings that include references to literary and even mythic tropes like Dante’s “Inferno.” Even with that time spent in the underworld, though, fans can assume that the Irish singer-songwriter will take them somewhere closer to heaven — and, for sure, “Church” — when he mounts a major U.S. tour this fall, including a sold-out stop at the Hollywood Bowl Nov. 4.
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Ellise Shafer “Lost in Paris” directing duo Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon have shared a first look at their new film “The Falling Star,” which premieres at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. Abel and Gordon also star in the film, which follows Boris (Abel), a former activist who works at a bartender at the Falling Star. According to the film’s official synopsis, Boris’ “guilty past resurfaces when a victim finds him and wants revenge.
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