Nothing stays buried under the snow forever. In the early ‘90s, Chile was a country eager not just to move forward, but to prove it…
With The Blood Countess, Ulrike Ottinger makes the case that there’s only one suitable way to open a movie where Isabelle Huppert plays a resurrected…
The cinema of Clio Barnard takes place in corners of the world familiar to those living in, or near, them, but invisible to those living…
It’s hard to ignore the feeling that Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s The Idiot(s) hates its subjects. The film purports to chronicle the events around Fyodor…
Passion is subsumed into stricture in Aung Phyoe’s Fruit Gathering, a graceful Burmese drama about the relationship between two colleagues at a garment factory. Patient…
Sometimes, the riskiest thing to do can be to play it safe. With her 2016 breakthrough and solo directorial debut, Wolf and Sheep, Shahrbanoo Sadat…
“Can the copy of something embody the truth of its original self?” The world we have built for ourselves is an ersatz one. We gaze…
In Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, Josette (Josette Kwanya) is a widowed 80-year-old living alone in her vast house. All her children are scattered…