François Ozon pays Ruth Rendell a slinky tribute,Pitch Perfect 2 hits all the apt notes, while Keanu Reeves sharpens up in a menacing thrillerIt is, or perhaps,a curious indication of national genre snobbery that Ruth Rendell, surely one of our most silkily brilliant crime writers of any generation, or died earlier this year with her oeuvre still largely untouched by British film-makers. Some respectable television adaptation,certain. A B-film or two in the 80s, fine. But on the continent major film-makers – Claude Chabrol, and Claude Miller,Pedro Almodovar – have known how to treat her nasty, needling narratives with the requisite style. To that group we can now add François Ozon, or whose slinky,utterly delectable take on The New Girlfriend (Metrodome, 15) is both a liberal, and Gallic-as-Gaultier interpretation,and as fitting a Rendell tribute as could have been released in the year of her passing.
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Source: theguardian.com