Jonathan Romney

Jonathan Romney is the film critic of the Independent on Sunday and a contributing editor at Sight and Sound. His books include Atom Egoyan in the BFI World Directors series.

As If: ‘Cahiers du cinéma’

Jonathan Romney, 9 September 2010

In an essay on Avatar in the March issue of the French film journal Cahiers du cinéma, Slavoj Žižek wrote that, despite its superficial espousal of revolutionary action (by blue-skinned aliens rising up against earthling exploitation), the film was in fact entirely reactionary. In an interview in the following issue of Cahiers, Žižek cheerfully admitted that he had written his...

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