Ghostbusters, The Infiltrator, Café Society, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, Men Go to Battle

Ghostbusters

The Infiltrator

Café Society

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

Men Go to Battle

A seriously great undercover mission highlights the week in film:

Farewell, My Queen

The subject of Benoit Jacquot’s “Farewell, My Queen” is not my departure Monday for Philadelphia. Rather, it’s Marie Antoinette (her again?) during the last days of Versailles. Jacquot was actually allowed to film at Versailles, and it’s a secondary failing of the movie that he’s failed to capture the decadent grandeur of the place, the sheer flawless vulgarity of it (to borrow a line from “Small Time Crooks”). The primary problem is an overstuffed plot that would require an MIT wall-size dry-erase board to diagram.