On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, I welcome the gifted French genre auteur Lucile Hadžihalilovic, who’s been making beautifully realized and profoundly disquieting studies of children and corruption for more than twenty years now. Those films — Innocence, Evolution, Earwig and The Ice Tower — have been collected into an impressive Blu-ray boxed set, The Worlds of Lucile Hadžihalilovic, which is out today from Severin Films and Yellow Veil Pictures.

But first, you should listen to Lucile on Alain Resnais’ 1961 masterpiece Last Year at Marienbad, which is eerie and claustrophobic in ways that are very different from her own work but casts the same unsettling hold over the audience. I’m surprised no one has brought this movie onto the show before, given its stature in avant-garde cinema … but I can’t really complain, since the delay led to this wonderful conversation. I invite you to join us … but just be warned, you might never leave.

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Fortunately, you’re safe as houses over at Shiny Things, where there’s plenty to enjoy — last week, I spun up new discs of The Late Show, Eraser, 50 First Dates and Slither, and  this week I’ve already dropped reviews of The Mastermind and Crime 101, with more new releases to come. (Lucile’s collection gets its own spotlight next week. There’s a lot to go through.) And if you’re a paid subscriber, last week you got my reviews of Among Us and new stand-up specials from Patton Oswalt and Kumail Nanjiani.

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Anyway, it’s Canada Day tomorrow and we’re looking at a record heat wave. Go have some ice cream, and I’ll see you on the other side.