For quite a while now, we have identified Elena Wolff – cabaret artist, actress and director’s colleague, as a young lady full of ideas. She has made it very clear this fact is not limited to the screen when she presented Para: Dies at Diagonale No, it is not strange that the interest in Asche […]
In 1761, when she was twenty-four years old and without a penny to her name, Jeanne Bécu addressed one of her letters to a “dear friend” and even went to say that she loved him. Then she cut to the chase: “I grew tired of being a mere shopgirl and wished to be my own
If I had to describe how Marisa Kavtaradze’s “Slow” is set up, most of you would probably guess what is more or less to come next. However, one of the many nice things about the film, which was Lithuania’s submission for the international feature film category in the Oscar this year, is that it tries
In “Aisha,” Letitia Wright plays the young asylum seeker in Ireland seeking to defeat the bureaucratic system even if it means seeking assistance from the authorities that have caused her pain. Writer-director Frank Berry’s film never devolves into the melodramatic – if anything, quite the opposite and it might even be too understated – the
Fran (Daisy Ridley) is the protagonist in ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’. She remains silent for her first 22 minute. Not a single sound emerges from her. Costarring with the main character’s inability to speak is Fran’s blunt introduction with the words ‘I am Fran. I love cottage cheese.’ She does not understand why it
The best description of Levy is that he is very talented when it comes to acting – which is making her come across as so likable and approachable- this warms people to they fail sometimes quite badly to discriminate between the two as is the case in with “Good Grief”, a bland yet touchy focused
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
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
As the narrative suggests, Five Blind Dates is the first feature film made in Australia by Prime Video, which seeks to inject some Crazy Rich Asians flair into the hearts of the fans, this Valentine’s Day. Lia, a character she alternatively co-writtes and plays, is a young Asian female resident in Sydney with struggling tea
