Jonathan Rosenbaum

Latest reviews

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  The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)

  Publish Date: December 25, 2006

  "Both sad and darkly funny, the film is so sharply conceived and richly populated that it often registers like a Frederick Wiseman documentary, even though everything is scripted and every part played by a professional."

  Chicago Reader
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  The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)

  Publish Date: June 30, 2005

  "It's more than a simple improvement, inverting some of the original's qualities so that the impersonal, well-crafted filmmaking remains lucid throughout. Even more unexpectedly, the piano lessons taken by the hero (Romain Duris, very fine) from a Vietnamese woman who speaks no French are more highly charged than any of the violence".  

  Chicago Reader