Claude Chabrol is a trespasser, one who has ventured into an uncharted place where the droll is almost totally sublimated into the sinister, and it is nearly impossible to tell when his films are joking or when they are cutting.

In the non-monumental Profit Motives and the Whispering Wind, director John Gianvito chronologically tracks a history of struggles for liberty and bloody repressions in North America.

Wonderful Town, the promising first film by Aditya Assarat, has a great amount of outer spirit, though what it truly lacks is an expressive inner life.