Author Beatrice Layoza

Beatrice Layoza

Beatrice Loayza is the associate web editor at the Criterion Collection. She is a regular film critic for the New York Times and a contributor to Film Comment, Cinema Scope, the Baffler, and other publications.

Before Innocence: The Real-World Malaise of La Bouche de Jean-Pierre

Beatrice Layoza

August 2022

The Natural Models of Lucile Hadžihalilović

When it comes to the work of Lucile Hadžihalilović, there is an after Innocence (2004) and a before it. Those films that come “after,” like Evolution (2015) and Earwig (2021) seem to exist in the same surreal c...