Paradise: Love movie review
The first chapter of an acerb trilogy, Paradise: Love proves to be quite an ironical title as the film focuses on doomed relationships. Following the adventures of a group of Austrian women...
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Following recent and milder works, Thomas Vinterberg returns to the source, with a film in the vein of his critical success, the tormented Festen. Through the portraits of a family shattered by incest...
View ArticleBeyond the Hills movie review
Following 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, which had been crowned with a Golden Palm at the Cannes film festival, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu is back with his much-anticipated new feature. While...
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With a Rhomer-like freshness, South Korean director Hong Sangsoo delivers a series of irresistible and charming skits about the adventures of a French woman and a Korean lifeguard. These romantic...
View ArticleLike Someone in Love movie review
Following Certified Copy, which was taking place in Italy, the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami is now using Japan as a setting. Telling the story of a young escort girl, harassed by her jealous...
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Since the White Ribbon, which won a well-deserved Golden Palm award in Cannes, Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke seems to have found peace, having abandoned his taste for gratuitous provocation....
View ArticleHoly Motors movie review
“I have a project: becoming crazy.” Holy Motors leaves you groggy, as if you were awaking from sleepwalking. This magnificent work needs to be digested slowly; we not only get enveloped by this...
View ArticleLa Camioneta movie review
Mark Kendall’s La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus shows the journey of a school bus, from being sold at an auction in Pennsylvania to enjoying its new colorful life as public...
View ArticleDead Man’s Burden movie review
Set in sunny New Mexico, this little indie western turns out to be a surprisingly dark and twisted piece of filmmaking. From the beginning, it is clear that Dead Man’s Burden isn’t about plot – the...
View ArticleLawless movie review
With his cerebral and physical western, The Proposition, director John Hillcoat had delivered an intriguing film, which was featuring holes. Filled with ellipses, his movie was roughly built on –...
View ArticleOn The Road movie review
Published in 1957, Jack Kerouac’s autobiographical novel remains one of the most influential works coming from the Beat Generation. Following a group of friends as they travel back and forth...
View ArticleThe Angels’ Share movie review
Ken Loach’s filmmography is quite contrasted, the British director usually alternating between heavy fares and light comedies, like if he was trying to breathe some air into his tense body of work....
View ArticleAfter Lucia movie review
After Lucia is the second feature from Mexican director Michel Franco (Daniel and Ana). The film, which follows a girl’s excruciating journey as she gets relentlessly bullied at a new school, has...
View ArticleParadise: Love movie review
The first chapter of an acerb trilogy, Paradise: Love proves to be quite an ironical title as the film focuses on doomed relationships. Following the adventures of a group of Austrian women...
View ArticleThe Hunt movie review
Following recent and milder works, Thomas Vinterberg returns to the source, with a film in the vein of his critical success, the tormented Festen. Through the portraits of a family shattered by incest...
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