In many respects, each of the works by Wang Bing at Cannes this year exemplify the now reigning axes of Wang’s interests and style. Youth…
A deceptive airiness courses through No Love Lost, the sophomore feature from Erwan Le Duc — which follows his equally quaint and whimsical The Bare…
Elena Martín Gimeno is the director, co-writer, and star of Creatura, a somewhat oddly titled film. When Mila (Gimeno) and her partner find themselves unable…
At the outset of White Balls on Walls, it’s so decreed: the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will remove the massive welcome at their entrance that reads…
From Gwyneth Paltrow selling her vagina-scented candle that retails for a cool $70 to the Kardashians’ variety of extremely lucrative deals, influencer culture has taken…
In a famous 1960 piece for Cahiers du Cinema, titled “In Defense of Violence,” Michel Mourlet bluntly states: “Charlton Heston is an axiom. He constitutes…
Body doubles and deception have always been the fertile staples of romantic comedy — look no further than Shakespeare, who imbued such courtly antics with…
Sadly, new romantic comedy About My Father is not a companion piece to Pedro Almodóvar’s magnificent All About My Mother, but instead an attempted star…
Cléo (Louise Mauroy-Panzani) is a storm that is hard to contain: though pure, she’s capable of so much darkness. And she’s six years old. Raised…
Two years ago, French director Catherine Corsini was in Cannes’ Competition with The Divide, a film that used the deteriorating marriage of two well-heeled Parisian…
Though recent Palme d’Or wins for Parasite and Titane might point to a changing landscape, Cannes has never been a particularly genre-friendly festival. Most selections…
A delicate and bittersweet queer coming-of-age film, A Song Sung Blue is also, unfortunately, weighed down by all the predictable beats that befall its bildungsroman…
Belgian director Paloma Sermon-Daï’s 2020 documentary film Petit Samedi profiled her own family, paying particular attention to her brother and his drug addiction. Her debut…
Jamie Sisley’s directorial debut, Stay Awake, is an addiction story that situates its two primary characters outside the epicenter of the addiction — in its…
Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning — these whistleblowers, through their defiance, would define the creeping American military industrial and security complex in the years after 9/11.…
One of the biggest pitfalls of depicting and representing trauma arrives precisely and most insidiously in what appears to be its greatest strength: by grafting…
Will-o’-the-Wisp, João Pedro Rodrigues’s long-awaited follow-up feature to The Ornithologist, almost seems to take the form of a sketch. Running a slender 67 minutes and…
Ever since its explosion into the Hollywood mainstream, and that of its globalized imitators, in the 21st century, hyperlink cinema has become one of the…
Even within the world of American independent filmmaking, there’s something endearingly out-of-step about the films of Nicole Holofcener. Warm and chatty when angst and calling…
It’s been five years since Djon Africa, the last feature from co-directors João Miller Guerra and Filipa Reis. That film — about a Cape Verdean…