Movies

April, 2001

Patrice Leconte is a filmmaker of unlimited surprises, capable of sheer charm (Hairdresser's Husband) and sensuous fantasy (Girl on the Bridge). His latest, The Widow of Saint-Pierre (Lions Gate), can only be called an oddity. Juliette Binoche has the title role, as a spirited woman who lives on the Canadian island of Saint-Pierre in the mid-1800s with her husband (Daniel Auteuil), the captain of a regiment and something of a free spirit himself. When a convicted murderer (Emir Kusturica) is sen...