Welcome to New York
Gérard Depardieu stars as a respected French financier, candidate for his country’s presidency and bloated sensualist who has sailed through life without consequences. His sex addiction turns monstrous and self-destructive when he assaults an African housekeeper in his New York hotel room and is arrested while waiting for departure at JFK Airport. Inspired by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, Abel Ferrara directed an emotionally complex, compelling and graphically disturbing account about a powerful cynic who feels nothing.
Soaked in Bleach
Mixing interviews with reenactments, Soaked in Bleach takes up private investigator Tom Grant’s assertion that Kurt Cobain’s 1994 death was a homicide, not a suicide. He was initially hired by Courtney Love, depicted here as a drug-addled, duplicitous harpy. The best scenes were interviews and footage shot in Aberdeen, Cobain’s environmentally depressing and economically depressed hometown. Was Love involved in a conspiracy to murder her husband? As it says at the film’s beginning: “You decide.”
“Mythbusters: Collection 13”
James Cameron stars in episode one in the latest collection from the popular Discovery Channel series, defending himself against the Internet boobs who have chattered endlessly about whether the protagonists of Titanic, Rose and Jack, could both have survived by clinging to a piece of board. The genial Adam and his straight man sidekick Jamie reproduce the board, the temperature and other conditions, showing that science is on Cameron’s side. A light tone is maintained throughout.
