"Forty Shades of Blue" is a muted but nicely observed study of a Russian woman's gradual estrangement from her domineering Memphis music-legend husband. This long-awaited second feature from Ira Sachs ...

Lithe, blonde, and leggy, Laura is, at least outwardly, the quintessence of a musician’s arm jewelry. She lives with Alan James (Rip Torn), an aging blues producer who is revered despite his prickly ...

The family drama “Forty Shades of Blue,” centering on a modern Oedipal triangle involving a music producer, a Russian wife half his age and his son, won top dramatic honors at the Sundance Film ...

Wealthy music producer Alan James lives with his beautiful 30-years-younger Russian girlfriend Laura, whom he met while he was in Russia on business; they have a three-year-old son. Alan is a music ...

With his deeply felt “Forty Shades of Blue,” writer-director Ira Sachs again returns to his native Memphis, Tenn., the setting of his tender 1997 debut feature, “The Delta,” a love story involving the ...

A nicely tuned American indie drama in a minor key, Ira Sachs' Sundance Film Festival award winner centers on a grizzled Memphis rock 'n' roll legend (Rip Torn). It's easy to turn such tempestuous ...

The two recent Bill Murray ennui-fests, Broken Flowers and Lost in Translation, illustrate how quietly introspective moments of passion and betrayal can have a cumulative emotional effect as ...

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You can tell why some disagreed with the choice. Not much happens in the movie, and what plot there is involves a soap-operatic triangle between a Russian immigrant, the much-older man she lives with ...

I’m worried that the audience for artful, engaging (and yes, sometimes challenging) American cinema is truly dead. Lodge Kerrigan’s utterly gripping and emotionally satisfying “Keane” — one of the ...

"Forty Shades of Blue" tells the story of Laura, a young Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock n' roll legend, and the personal awakening she experiences in the wake of her ...