theauteurs.com Festival

As you may already know, the Criterion Collection will be hosting an online festival every month over at theauteurs.com (an affiliate site) featuring films from its collection that you can watch for free. I posted about it last week. Good stuff.

Well, theauteurs.com, is holding a "festival," of its own.

Here are a batch of films you can watch for free:

Philippe Garrel's Le Vent de la Nuit (1999)
Hirokazu Kore-Eda's After Life (1998)
Verónica Chen's Agua (2006)
Masahiro Kobayashi's Bashing (2005)
Anne Villaceque's Riviera (2005) and
Fien Troch's Someone Else's Happiness (2005)

I've been a huge admirer of Philippe Garrel's films ever since I saw J'entends plus la Guitare (a film based on his relationship with Nico) and Le Lit de la Vierge at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts earlier this year.


I watched Le Vent de la Nuit last night and felt like I was waiting for something that never quite materialized. Perhaps this is what Garrel intended, considering that the revolution of '68 (a recurring subject in his films), and the film's characters also fell short of their promise. If this was indeed the intent of the filmmaker(s), I think it succeeds in that respect. However, I can't say that the rest of the film, save for the acting (Catherine Deneuve's, chief among them) and John Cale's score (which you can download here), was all that captivating.

I'm excited to see After Life, directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda (Nobody Knows) next.