Film
The odd couple
The late-summer romance Mademoiselle Chambon begins literally on the oddest note when a French construction worker, Jean (Vincent Lindon), finds himself having coffee at the apartment of his son's grade-school composition teacher, Mademoiselle Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain). Read more
Requiem for a lost empire
Late in the third act of David Lean's astonishingly intimate epic The Bridge on the River Kwai (opening Friday for a week at the Castro), a troupe of British soldiers, whom we have ogled naked to the waist, don green skirts and bras, and proceed to serenade their possibly mad commanding officer, Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness, 1957 Oscar, Best Actor), with an old music-hall standard. Read more
