Tim Jackson Web
  • Home
  • Actor
  • DIRECTOR
  • Drums
  • Photo
  • Blog
  • FILM REVIEWS
  • Night Visitors
  • Misc
  • Videos
  • CV
  • Eight Days a Week: The Beatles on Tour
  • Sully
  • Christine
  • Loving
  • Blog
  • BLACK FILM 2016
  • BESTS OF 2016
  • 20th Century Women
  • SOME BANDS
  • Photograph
  • THE ASSISTANT
  • EMMA
  • First Cow
  • Video Essays
  • Tommaso
  • Driveways
  • Boston Films
  • Painted Bird
  • HELMUT NEWTON
  • Capital
  • Roy Cohn
  • Roger Stone
  • Lee Atwater
  • Herzog
  • Humankind
  • MISC.
  • BOOKS
  • Theater
  • Hitchcock Acting
  • Best of 2019
  • Best 2018
  • Best 2017
  • Best 2016
  • Best 2015
  • Best 2014
  • BEST 2013
  • White Tiger
  • New Mexican
  • Forgotten Bands
  • Summertime
  • Quiet Place 2
  • PInk
  • Killing of Two Lovers
  • Marriage
  • Bill Staines
  • Pleasure

The Death of Louis XIV

5/15/2017

0 Comments

 
His tiny head nestled in a wild bird’s nest of a wig, Louis XIV is dying. He is surrounded by his court, his minions, and his physicians. Efforts to save him grow increasingly futile. Albert Serra’s The Death of Louis XIV is just what the title says, and it runs for nearly two hours. It is not a movie for every taste; in fact, it is as close to watching paint dry as a film can get. I mean that in a good way.
I emerged from The Death of Louis XIV as from a dream, or nightmare, or maybe it was a farce. I have ...
Continue Reading
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.