Reviews of Today’s AFI Film Fest

Following are capsule reviews of today’s screenings in the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas:

‘A Flame in My Heart’

Switzerland, 1987, 110 minutes 9 p.m. Swiss film-maker Alain Tanner (“La Salamandre”) specializes in portrayals of intellectuals that are rounded, concrete, utterly convincing. The film, shot in the grainy, evocative monochrome of the New Wave, is about two obsessive loves and the havoc they wreak. It’s amazingly frank, both sexually and psychologically, and Mezieres, as an actress torn between Racine and strip-tease, instinct and intellect, gives a sensational performance: full-throttle, naked, nothing held back. She will galvanize, divide and fire up audiences like no other performer at the festival. RECOMMENDED.