Tag: Festivals

[ad_1] The movie opens with Lokita (Joely Mbundu) being interrogated by an official about her relationship with her “brother,” Tori (Pablo Schils), who is not her brother at all; they…

[ad_1] One of the major films that changed my life was released at this festival in 1996. It was from a country I’d not seen a film from before, a…

[ad_1] Saul has parlayed his life—or at least his biology—into his life’s work. He is a performance artist who allows the removal of his rogue organs to be performed live,…

[ad_1] You would never guess that “Holy Spider” comes from Ali Abbasi, the Iranian-born director who made “Border,” the Swedish-Danish fantasy movie from 2018. The filmmaking itself hews to a fairly…

[ad_1] When the pair embarks on a luxury cruise that Yaya is participating in as an influencer (she’ll pose eating pasta for photographs but won’t actually eat it), Östlund’s scope…

[ad_1] The American Pavilion (AmPav, for those in a rush) is marked with Roger Ebert’s name on the conference room wall. His portrait looks over the hundreds that gather daily…

[ad_1] If the ambiguities of “One Fine Morning” in some ways recall Éric Rohmer, “Brother and Sister” revives the strain of Cassavetes that critics recognized in early Desplechin films like…

[ad_1] That TV clip is shown in the film, which is technically set in 1980, when Paul Graff (Banks Repeta), whose name and red hair bear obvious similarities to the…

[ad_1] Other than a brief dust-up almost near the end, there’s scarcely a fraught moment between these two protagonists. And over a story that spans decades, the constant getting along is maddening to…

[ad_1] He wasn’t the only one who indicated that the festival was being held at a troubling time. Forest Whitaker, who won the best-actor prize at Cannes for Clint Eastwood’s…