In “Being Maria,” teenage Maria Schneider (Anamaria Vartolomei) is first seen sitting on a movie set, watching her actor father, Daniel Gélin (Yvon Attal), at work, her face lit up with pride and curiosity. At home, her mother (Marie Gillain) gives her a hard time for wanting a relationship with the man who abandoned them….
Deciding whether you’re ready to become a parent is hard enough. Having someone decide for you is even harder, especially when that person is a representative of the state who makes you jump through all kinds of crazy hoops without needing to explain her reasoning. Such is the vexing premise of “The Assessment,” a dystopian…
“Magazine Dreams” is a dark drama in the vein of “Taxi Driver,” Martin Scorsese’s film about a disturbed cabbie named Travis Bickle who projects his damage onto the world. There have been a lot of movies in that mode, starting with 1970’s “Joe” (about a couple of reactionaries who hate hippies enough to murder them)…