Elle Fanning – FilmFest Salon

Film: “The Beguiled”

Film remakes can be tricky things, especially when the original is not an undisputed classic. I saw the original of The Beguiled over forty years ago. Starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Don Siegel, I enjoyed it but it was not a success. He played a wounded Yankee soldier in the Civil War who stumbles […]

Review: “Neon Demon” and hiatus

By filmfestsalonJuly 12, 2016Film Review BlogElle Fanning, fashion model, horror, jealousy, Keanu Reeves, Los Angeles, Nicolas Winding Refn

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Neon Demon follows a well-worn path to its bloody conclusion, relying on an audience’s tolerance for empty female characters in order to see them murder each other as a career move. In this case, they are gorgeous models seething with jealousy over Elle Fanning’s sudden dominance of the fashion scene in Los […]