Lee Jutton

Brooklyn

Film Critic at Freelance

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Articles

A MAN AND A WOMAN: A Timeless French Romance Returns in 4K

2 weeks ago | filminquiry.com | Lee Jutton

Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman is a film as simple and complicated as its title implies. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay, it chronicles the tentative, tender romance between a widow and a widower, irresistibly drawn to one another despite the heavy weight of past tragedies.
A MAN AND A WOMAN: A Timeless French Romance Returns in 4K

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Lee Jutton

Lee Jutton·Follow4 min read·--This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on April 3, 2025. Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman is a film as simple and complicated as its title implies. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay, it chronicles the tentative, tender romance between a widow and a widower, irresistibly drawn to one another despite the heavy weight of past tragedies.
JULIE KEEPS QUIET: When Silence Says It All

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Lee Jutton

Lee Jutton·Follow4 min read·--This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on March 27, 2025. Belgium’s submission for Best International Feature Film at this year’s Academy Awards, Julie Keeps Quiet paints an intimate and empathetic portrait of an elite youth tennis player who refuses to speak up after her coach is accused of abuse.
JULIE KEEPS QUIET: When Silence Says It All

4 weeks ago | filminquiry.com | Lee Jutton

Belgium’s submission for Best International Feature Film at this year’s Academy Awards, Julie Keeps Quiet paints an intimate and empathetic portrait of an elite youth tennis player who refuses to speak up after her coach is accused of abuse.
AN UNFINISHED FILM: Once Upon a Time During COVID

1 month ago | filminquiry.com | Lee Jutton

It’s been five years since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, and the way one senses the passage of time still hasn’t recovered; some days, it seems like the world was shut down only yesterday, yet other days, it can feel like a lifetime ago. Whatever the case may be, it might seem like a big ask to relive the fear, isolation, and trauma of those days on screen.
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS and the Existential Nightmare of Hollywood

1 month ago | medium.com | Lee Jutton

Lee Jutton·Follow4 min read·--This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on March 5, 2025. Some novels capture the look and feel of a certain place so completely that you feel like you know it intimately, even if you’ve never been there before. Somehow, you already know this place, its sights, sounds, and smells, and most importantly, how it makes the people in it feel.
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS and the Existential Nightmare of Hollywood

1 month ago | filminquiry.com | Lee Jutton

Some novels capture the look and feel of a certain place so completely that you feel like you know it intimately, even if you’ve never been there before. Somehow, you already know this place, its sights, sounds, and smells, and most importantly, how it makes the people in it feel.
ARMAND: The Performance of Truth

1 month ago | medium.com | Lee Jutton

Lee Jutton·Follow4 min read·--This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on February 20, 2025. Winner of the Caméra d’Or for Best First Feature Film at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and Norway’s submission for Best International Film at this year’s Academy Awards, Armand has quite the cinematic pedigree.
ARMAND: The Performance of Truth

2 months ago | filminquiry.com | Lee Jutton

Winner of the Caméra d’Or for Best First Feature Film at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and Norway’s submission for Best International Film at this year’s Academy Awards, Armand has quite the cinematic pedigree. In addition to boasting the wonderful Renate Reinsve of The Worst Person in the World as both star and executive producer, it also happens to be the feature directorial debut of Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of Scandinavian cinema icons Liv Ullman and Ingmar Bergman.
A WOMAN IS A WOMAN and Anna Karina is an Icon

2 months ago | medium.com | Lee Jutton

Lee Jutton·Follow5 min read·--This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on February 6, 2025. Jean-Luc Godard may have burst into the cultural consciousness in an explosion of gunfire and jump cuts with Breathless, but he claimed that A Woman is a Woman — his third feature to be shot and his second to be released in theaters — was his first real film.