NYFF. Actresses.

"Actresses is a meek approximation of a Jacques Rivette film," writes Ed Gonzalez at Slant. "Though lighter on her feet than Rivette, [Valeria] Bruni Tedeschi does not recognize the abstract in the real, and so this irritating doodle is ultimately best enjoyed as another example of the woman's uncanny ability to volley between states of bliss and misery on the turn of a dime."

"Method acting is a form of insanity," suggests Alison Willmore at the IFC Blog. "Valeria Bruni Tedeschi should know; she's been acting in films for over two decades. In "Actresses," her second effort as a director, she prods the malleable, unstable temperaments of those who choose to spend their lives contorting their personalities into those of fictional characters by way of a stage production of Turgenev's A Month in the Country.... Bruni Tedeschi is radiant and milky-eyed as Marcelline, and also fearlessly loony."

Earlier: Reviews from Cannes.

Posted by dwhudson at October 14, 2007 3:51 PM