At one point in the film, the lead character (Gilbert Melki) confesses to liking the noise in Paris as the noise gives him energy.  Writer/director Anger’s film is noticeably quiet but what it lacks in energy, Anger’s film more than makes up for it in terms of mood, atmosphere and darkness.

RESTLESS is a very angry film about Moshe’s (Moshe Ivgy ) search for redemption in NYC.  Moshe has dumped his son, now a sniper in the Israeli army whom he has not met. 

Director Arnaud Desplechin’s last entry in 2004 ROIS ET REIGN was heralded by many critics as one of the best films of the decade.  What made that film great was that it realistically celebrated life with all its flaws and flowed as smoothly as syrup (or medicine) down ones throat. 

When THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK opened in 1984, it left audiences stunned and weeping.  It then went on to win the Oscar for Best Documentary.  Gus Van Sant’s MILK is a non-doc account of the rise and assassination of Harvey Milk, the first gay open elected official in California – and by no means a film no less moving.

The FOUR CHRISTMASES of the title comes about from the couple who have to visit each of four of their divorced parents. One after another!  If all this sounds tiresome, the film really is so, four times over.