
Casualties of War (1989) – Review by Pauline Kael
This movie about war and rape is the culmination of Brian De Palma’s best work. In essence, it’s feminist.
This movie about war and rape is the culmination of Brian De Palma’s best work. In essence, it’s feminist.
If Brian De Palma were a new young director, Body Double would probably be enough to establish him as a talented fellow. But, coming from De Palma, Body Double is an awful disappointment.
De Palma keeps our senses heightened that way all through Blow Out; the entire movie has the rapt intensity that he got in the slow-motion sequences in The Fury (1978). Only now, De Palma can do it at normal speed.
“The Conversation” was very ambitious, and I hung in not because it was going right, but because I couldn’t accept within myself the judgment that I couldn’t succeed in doing it. It’s a funny thing, but I just couldn’t let the project go.”
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