Email Author Ernest Hardy

2011 Stories by Ernest Hardy

• Despite Isabelle Huppert's presence, Special Treatment is disheartening

  published October 20, 2011

  Isabelle Huppert's cerebral, prickly, glacial screen presence — which she has calibrated throughout her career to portray gorgeously... More >>

• Finding Joe documents the life of the late Joseph Campbell

  published October 13, 2011

  There's much to savor in director Patrick Takaya Solomon's documentary Finding Joe, about the life — but mainly the work... More >>

• Queen to Play is a feminist tale on a chess board

  published May 26, 2011

  After chambermaid Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) glimpses an American couple (Jennifer Beals and Dominic Gould) playing chess in the... More >>

• Circo chronicles the tough and beautiful life of a Mexican circus

  published May 12, 2011

  "The circus is tough and beautiful," says a talking head in Circo, Aaron Schock's documentary on the small, struggling,... More >>

• Undertow is more than just a coming-out tale

  published February 3, 2011

  Writer-director Javier Fuentes-León's directorial debut, Undertow, is sublime. Set in a small, picturesque Peruvian... More >>