Nicolas Klotz and Elizabeth Perceval’s new film, New World! (The World Anew), was shot on Ushant, an island off the coast of Brittany where Jean…
Having premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year and going on to win the 2023 Caligari Film Award — supplemented by the almost parodic jury…
In many respects, Basma Al-Sharif’s 2017 feature Ouroboros was a broad summary of the themes she had explored in her experimental shorts over the previous…
Fadhel Messaoudi (played by himself) is in a fatal car crash. His soul ascends to a purgatorial stasis, imagined via the images of interrogation from…
The familiar chime of a Skype tone soundtracks a procession of festival laurels and production logos. Then, the sound swiftly vanishes, replaced by silence over…
Hamburg-based, multi-disciplinary artist Martha Mechow makes her feature film directorial debut with Losing Faith, an ecstatic portrait of womanhood breaking free from societal norms of…
If language is something you acquire — as a child, learning the “meaning” of words and how they fit and flow together — then it…
For the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the world comprised a single substance, and that substance was God. “Except God,” he wrote in the treatise Ethics,…
In Miranda Pennell’s latest essay film, the filmmaker carefully plaits a number of seemingly distinct cultural and historical strands, and in so doing, offers a…
In Michael Salerno’s The Masturbator’s Heart, death is an unshakeable temptation so vivid it becomes an obligation. It’s a remedy, a return to total neutrality.…
“The homosexual subject group,” writes Guy Hocquenghem, “knows that civilization alone is mortal.” Written in 1973, prior to the AIDS epidemic, Hocquenghem located the threat…
It’s always a pleasure to find genuinely weird horror movies at a film festival, the kind too offbeat or otherwise too uncommercial to garner attention…
Gloria Gaynor’s 1979 classic disco track “I Will Survive,” written and produced by Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren, boasts as its nominal subject a woman’s…
The motley lineups of the Tribeca Film Festival often may not deliver the riches of more prestigious festivals, but they do provide space to expand…
With its uninviting snowbound setting, drab wood-paneled roadside motels and bars, and sudden explosions of gangland violence, there is a decidedly Fargo-like shape to Rod…
Anna Roller’s directorial debut, Dead Girls Dancing, boasts a quite familiar plot, following three German high schoolers who embark on a road trip throughout Italy…
Priest, politician, resistance fighter, and social worker Abbé Pierre remains one of France’s most popular figures, best known for founding Emmaus, a charity movement with…
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…
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…