Master director Goran Paskaljevic’s latest film, The Optimists, is a brilliant, caustic anthology of five stories inspired by Voltaire’s “Candide.” While each instalment fleshes out a distinct universe, all cast a jaundiced eye on the charlatans who ...
Moullet, the jester of the Nouvelle Vague, plays an elderly director who is past his best. He comes up with a plan to breathe new life into his fame and status: under the motto 'speak no evil over the dead', he fakes his own death and adopts the iden...