Film directors, like the characters they depict on screen, can sometimes learn from their mistakes. This is certainly the case with French DP turned filmmaker Laurent Slama, whose new feature A Second Life vastly improves on his Netflix debut Paris Is Us, which he made under the pseudonym Elisabeth Vogler.…
Being a single mom and a successful painter is already a tough act to maintain. But doing so as an exile who escaped the Soviet bloc and suffered deep trauma for doing so, is even more distressing — especially when your past comes back to haunt you. Such are the…
The very first thing you discover about Suzannah Herbert’s doc Natchez is how the movie appears to be like. A dreamy aesthetic prevails, conjuring a form of nostalgic longing. Working with the cinematographer Noah Collier, Herbert movies the folks and landscapes in Natchez, a small Mississippi city identified for its…
Browsing an acquainted topic with special and an eye for psychological information, Czech writer-director Ondrej Provaznik supplies a discreetly effective teenage dramatization with his newest function, Broken Voices ( Sbormistr). Motivated by the real tale of the Bambini di Praga (Kid of Prague), a popular Czech young people carolers whose…
In a future where land is one of the most useful asset, the Freemans abide by a stringent isolationist plan. The tight-knit family members at the facility of R.T. Thorne's gripping launching 40 Acres does not discover locations beyond their ranch, an expansive system of land in country Canada demarcated…
The largest pleasure in Maa (Mom) is watching Kajol kick ass. Whereas the actor has spent over three many years taking part in every thing from the woman each boy wished to take house to mom (as Simran in Diwale Dulhania Le Jayenge) to a straight-up unhinged villain (as Isha…
Liam Neeson, or no less than the characters he performs, ought to in all probability keep away from all types of public transportation. The person merely can’t get on a car, whether or not it’s an airplane (Non-Cease) or a practice (The Commuter), with out getting himself into severe hassle.…
Movies about 20-something characters drifting aimlessly by way of life tend to float themselves, however that can be a part of their allure. Not each film must be a nail-biter, and never each plot must be engineered like a Maserati. Among the greatest examples of the style — Dazed and…
Navigating a well-recognized topic with delicacy and a mind for emotional element, Czech writer-director Ondrej Provaznik delivers a subtly highly effective adolescent drama along with his newest function, Damaged Voices (Sbormistr). Impressed by the true story of the Bambini di Praga (Kids of Prague), a famend Czech youth refrain whose…
Depictions of Iran in mainstream U.S. media tend to show a country filled with religious zealots burning American or Israeli flags in the streets. But anyone who’s seen a good Iranian movie, whether from masters like Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi, or from a budding generation of iconoclastic…
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