Dialing down the whimsy several notches, director Michel Gondry turns his camera on a resilient matriarch in “Thorn in the Heart,” a lovely, minor-key ode to his aunt, Suzette Gondry ...

Working with considerably more restraint than he’s brought to his narrative films, Michel Gondry turns to family matters in his new documentary. “The Thorn in the Heart” is closer to “The ...

The Thorn in the Heart can best be viewed—and appreciated—as Gondry speaking for his cousin, although the director has worked hard to disguise that aim. One thinks of Hamlet’s advice to the ...

Most interesting in "The Thorn of the Heart" is its depiction of a family where moviemaking is enmeshed in daily life. Movies are an avenue of introspection and discovery; Super 8 is as much a ...

In all fairness to The Thorn in the Heart, Michel Gondry's home movies are more interesting than most peoples'. The French director famous for his sense of visual style and whimsy didn't force his ...

Kim Richey takes a big gamble by devoting her entire new album, " Thorn in My Heart," to one mood: world-weary melancholy. The narrators in these 12 songs are burdened by troubled relatives, stuck ...

Quirky French director Michel Gondry largely eschews his usual clever camera tricks and crafty artificiality in the documentary The Thorn In The Heart. The movie features a few Gondry-esque ...

Formerly treading the blatant passageway between Yellowcard and Silverstein, A Thorn For Every Heart manage to shake off their growing pains only to churn out a sophomorically sophomore full ...

In "Thorn In My Heart," director Michel Gondry paints a deeply personal portrait of his beloved schoolteacher aunt Suzette. What starts as a look into her career in the French countryside ends ...

Working with considerably more restraint than he’s brought to his narrative films, Michel Gondry turns to family matters in his new documentary. “The Thorn in the Heart” is closer to “The ...

The big expansion to ArenaNet's 2012 MMO Guild Wars 2 launches today. Heart of Thorns comes three months after the core game went free-to-play.