In chestnut for most college students, the ambiguity attributed to the post-graduation summer is the last threshold of familiarity, and the ushering in of more fears concerning the unknown. It is rather different from the transition into higher education that happened a couple of years ago – a transition that more often, if it is […]
The first 15 minutes of “What Remains” follow a shadowing of Mads Lake, after whom Mads becomes almost Sigge Storm, Scandinavian with a beard, scruffily timid in a Rukka outdoors coat, about to embark on a new adventure after several years inside a mental hospital. Cleveland visits a man living in a bad neighborhood and
You do not always get the dog you desire, but you always get the dog you happen to need. This expression, normally spouted by dog lovers, fits intriguingly well with the Chinese director Guan Hu’s “Black Dog”. On such a scale, the maverick director’s latest – an Un Certain Regard antagonist at the Cannes this
This installment, “She Rises Up,” is Maureen Castle Tustys latest offering as a documentary filmmaker and it seeks to address the international economy and the efforts of a certain group of women trying to operate within it. Rightfully, removing the pride from the three central women as they are Gladys of Peru, Magatte of Senegal
The classification “Hummingbirds” also does no favour to the film, as it pushes the films into the depth of mere documentary. In sharp contrast – best friends and the directors Silvia del Carmen Castanos and Estefania Beba Contreras, – this is absolutely more than that, Self-presentation of the their, call for action, amusing summers with
Patrice Leconte’s “Monsieur Hire” is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, spoken of two lonely people who have nothing at all to share, except loneliness. Murder has been committed, and the movie opens on a corpse. Monsieur Hire, a thin, balding middle-aged tailor, lives alone. Alice, on the other hand, is a beautiful, tender-hearted 22-year-old
Having a story with a couple of love-struck children and a title like Winter Spring Summer or Fall, I suppose if Gover says such things it will be in regard to Tiffany Paulsen’s feature series comparisons with Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and its sequels. Still it is very unlikely that such a canonical stature will
The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother Toby Poser, and daughter Lulu Adams—are some of the most fascinating horror filmmakers on the scene. Get thee to a streaming service and watch “The Deeper You Dig” as soon as possible—it’s one of the best horror films of the decade so far—and
In France, the hours from five to seven are ordained as lovers’ meeting time. For Cleo that afternoon, there could not be anything further from her mind than sex. She is counting the minutes until she hears back on results from tests which she feels are going to tell her that she is dying from
Upgraded: Ana reports to a designing office dreaming of post-modernist architecture and there she becomes an art intern at some point. On the friendly side, Ana also happens to sit next to a handsome and ridiculously wealth William in the plane. This sweet rom-com focuses on the lives of people who are in love but
