Gregory Bernard Movies

Awakening one morning to find his faithful canine companion Paul has vanished without a trace, distressed dog lover Dolph Springer (Jack Plotnick) sets out on a frantic search for his four-legged friend with the help of a mysterious guru named Master Chang (William Fichtner) in this surreal comedy from Rubber director Quentin Dupieux. During the course of Dolph's quest, he encounters a wide array of eccentric figures, including an unorthodox pet detective (Steve Little), a compulsive jogger, and a sexually insatiable pizza-delivery girl. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Chanel head Karl Lagerfeld not only qualifies as one of the most resonantly successful and influential fashion designers of the late 20th century, but one of the most defiantly elusive. With the documentary portrait Lagerfeld Confidential, filmmaker Rodolphe Marconi attempts to change this status. For this film, Marconi gained rare and exclusive one-time access to the designer, and posits a series of direct onscreen questions to Lagerfeld about his famously clandestine personal life and his towering career in collaboration with such fashion giants as Pierre Balmain, Jean Patou, Repetto, Mario Valentino, and many others. Marconi spent two years shooting Lagerfeld (at the mercy of the designer's discretion about what was and wasn't filmed) and edited some 200 hours of Super-8 and HD footage down to feature length. In the finished film, Marconi repeatedly cuts back and forth between candidly shot on-location footage -- of Lagerfeld photographing models and actress Nicole Kidman, sketching out dress designs, mounting and coordinating catwalks -- and interview footage wherein Lagerfeld reflects at length on his upbringing, his career, his world views, and his proclivities (including atheism and active homosexuality since the age of 13). Deliberately or indeliberately, Marconi avoids extended discussion with Lagerfeld's critics and rivals in the fashion industry. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi