Sight and Sound

Features MISS FRANCE : Is it talent or looks that have made Audrey Tautou France's biggest female star? Or is her innocence a welcome antidote to a deluge of media sex? Ginette Vincendeau watches A Very Long Engagement = 12 DIVINE INNOCENCE : Catholic female adolescence is a time of nascent sexuality and spiritual desire, says Lucrecia Martel of her new film The Holy Girl. She talks to Nick James about doctors, saints, hotels and her sense of self = 18 RED, WHITE AND BREW : In Sideways Alexander Payne follows two emotionally retarded middle-aged men around the Californian vineyards. But how does he make us like them, asks Mark Salisbury = 22 MUSCULAR CONTRACTIONS : Sex scenes are a matter of letting the actors do what they know best, says James Toback. He talks to Peter Biskind about the making of When Will I Be Loved = 24 AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD : In Trilogy The Weeping Meadow Theo Angelopoulos revisits the themes that have informed his long career. He tells Sight & Sound about the significance of umbrellas = 28 THE LONELY CENTRE : Max von Sydow was a lean and craggy presence as Bergman's alter ego and a string of Hollywood outsiders. And he's still available, says Geoffrey Macnab = 32 BOOKS SPECIAL : Ian Christie celebrates a new biography that shows what inspired the magic of Humphrey Jennings Plus Paying homage to Godard, Alexander Walker's last stand, and Atom Egoyan on subtitles = 36 Regulars EDITORIAL : Lust bites the dust = 3 RUSHES : Arthouse at the box office, reports from Thessaloniki and Turin, German funnies, the Kurdish new wave, Singapore's censors = 4 LETTERS : The black actor's burden; why fidelity matters; Claude Rains' last rasp; DVD extras = 88 COVER : Portrait of Audrey Tautou ⓒ Jean-Francois Robert／Corbis Outline Film reviews Alexander／Alexandre = 42 Blade Trinity = 43 Christmas with the Kranks = 44 Closer = 45 Creep = 47 Criminal = 48 Door in the Floor, The = 49 End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones = 50 G.O.R.A. = 50 Hole in My Heart, A／Ett Hal i mitt hjärta = 52 Holy Girl, The／La nina santa = 53 Inheritance／Arven／Arvet = 54 Ladder 49 = 54 Last Horror Movie, The = 56 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events／Lemony Snicket - Rätselhafte Ereignisse = 57 Levity = 58 Los Angeles Plays Itself = 60 Meet the Fockers = 61 National Treasure = 61 Ocean's Twelve = 62 Orwell Rolls in His Grave = 64 Phantom of the Opera, The = 65 Ray = 66 School for Seduction = 68 Sideways = 69 Sleepover = 70 Sword of Xanten／Die Nibelungen／Ring of the Nibelungs = 72 Turtles Can Fly／Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand = 74 2046 = 74 Vanity Fair = 75 Very Long Engagement, A／Un long dimanche de fiancailles = 76 Wall／Mur = 78 William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice／Il mercante di Venezia = 79 Woodsman, The = 48, 80 HomeMovies : Matthew Leyland, Geoffrey Macnab, Kate Stables, Andrea Toal and Ben Walters review this month's DVD releases plus Tim Lucas hails a Soviet folk classic; Jonathan Romney on Seinfeld; and Michael Brooke on exploitation emperor Samuel Z. Arkoff = 82

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