Month: March 2022

I have to admit that I was a bit disappointed with the fact that a biographical documentary about the famous Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson was made in a stenciled, completely uninventive way, at the …

The feature debutant Andreas Fontana set the plot of his film somewhere in the late 1970s or early 1980s in Argentina, during the rule of the military junta when thousands of people disappeared and their …

Olga (Anastasia Budiashkina) is a 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast who will end up in exile in Switzerland. The time of the action is 2013 and 2014, the time when dangerous cooking began in Ukraine and when, …

This was a harrowing and really difficult drama for the Russian Oscar nominee, and he won “Unclenching the Fists” and the award for best film in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film …

End of XIX. and the beginning of the 20th century were marked, among other things, by polar expeditions. Norwegians and Americans took the lead in these dangerous and often perilous adventures, but neither the Swedes …

It is only at first that this costumed series set in New York in the 1980s may seem like a historical version of a lazy housewife from Manhattan. “The Gilded Age” is one of those …

    Bigas Luna is one of the most interesting, eccentric and colorful characters from the world of Spanish film, which is already rich in many types who could also boast similar epithets. Although Luna …

Watching this avant-garde mysterious drama by the great Robert Altman I couldn’t help but think of one of my favorite movies, David Lynch’s “Mullholland Drive”. Although nowhere have I been able to find that Lynch …

After 13 long years, former yakuza Mikami (great Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, who was nominated for Asian Actor of the Year), a 55-year-old man who ended up behind bars because he cut a guy who …

Something that initially looked like a typical almost stereotypical romantic comedy / drama will very quickly turn into a brutal, shocking, disturbing and even quite morbid horror. Therefore, the debut feature film made by Mimi …