by Coeli Carr | Apr 8, 2014 | Film, Media, Pluto, Venus
There’s a tasty question posed in the title Only Lovers Left Alive. Are the film’s two protagonists the only two very long term lovers allowed to endure another day, until they’ve racked up centuries’ worth of togetherness? Or are “lovers” – those passionate, caring,...
by Coeli Carr | Feb 19, 2014 | Film, Media, Mercury, Pluto
The Underworld energy of Pluto is alive and kicking in In Secret, which blurs the line between physical and moral disintegration in mid-1860s France. Based on Émile Zola’s novel Thérèse Raquin, the movie, written and directed by Charlie Stratton, lays out...
by Coeli Carr | Feb 19, 2014 | Film, Media, Neptune, Pluto
The stunningly self-involved central figure in the Romanian movie Child’s Pose is Cornelia Keneres (Luminita Gheorghiu), the latest in a long line of cinematic devouring mothers who operate from terrifying, chthonic depths when unable to control offspring who’ve had...
by Coeli Carr | Jan 20, 2014 | Film, Mars, Pluto
There’s something extraordinarily self-contained about the non-descript, scrawny-pined beach and parking lot in Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake. The area’s caché – it’s an enclave for gay-cruising – is revealed quickly. However, this French lakeside...
by Coeli Carr | Dec 26, 2013 | Film, Media, Moon, Pluto
At the heart of August: Osage County, directed by John Wells, is an ugly metaphor for what ails the Weston family. We learn soon enough that Violet (Meryl Streep), the clan’s matriarch and Lunar symbol, is terminally ill with cancer of the mouth, the body part which...
by Coeli Carr | Dec 26, 2013 | Film, Jupiter, Mars, Media, Mercury, Moon, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn, Sun, Uranus, Venus
Based on the true story of crooked broker Jordan Belfort, Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is a three-hour evocation of the revelry-filled Roman festival known as the Saturnalia. At some point during that ancient manic carnival, the head reveler was put to...
