Word: hollande
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Holland swears that every film she makes has "a different energy, a different dramaturgic dynamic," but an overview of Holland's work shows that almost every film is of a different genre, even a different "language...
Most famous for Europa, Europa, an almost-unclassifiable German historical drama-cum-comic-childhood-memoir, Holland has also directed films ranging from Olivier, Olivier, a French psychological thriller, to Fever, a pro-revolutionary Polish drama, and even found time for the 1994 English-language children's movie The Secret Garden...
Washington Square is Holland's first move into Penguin Classics territory, but the film bears important similarities to her previous efforts. "I have one question that's really come back to me," says Holland. "The question of identity, the question of who we are: if we have a sense of an inner truth that is unchangeable, or if we exist only through the eyes and expectations of other people...
...whose individual identity is constantly undermined by her relations to the men around her. Her father sees in Catherine the ghost of his wife, who died in childbirth, and thus continually perceives her as a disappointment, a symbol of his own loss. "At the beginning of the film," says Holland, "Catherine seems 'stupid' because the father and the aunt see her that...
...Holland and star Jennifer Jason Leigh were both sympathetic to how Catherine gets caught between her father and her suitor Morris Townsend, an ambitious clerk who loves Catherine for her family's wealth. "We wanted to play the tragedy, the admiration and the jealousy between these...