Month: May 2022

    After presenting himself with this clever and dynamic political drama at the Locarno festival (and winning a special jury award), the then 31-year-old Argentine filmmaker Santiago Miter was nicknamed the Latin American Aaron …

    Until this film, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sencov was better known to me for the problems he found himself in after Russia arrested him in Crimea in May 2014 and soon sentenced him to …

Veteran of French film Philippe Garrel (father of famous actor Louis Garrel) began filming as a 16-year-old in the mid-1960s under the influence of new wave fighters such as Godard and Truffaut, and he has …

    Eight years after winning an Oscar for the screenplay for “The Imitation Game,” Graham Moore also debuted as a director. And this surprisingly good, somewhat old-fashioned, minimalist and theatrical crime story, which takes …

    Even before I started watching the series recorded in an American-Korean-Japanese production, I was intrigued by its name and the meaning of the word “Pachinko”. Pachinko turned out to be a Japanese type …

The famous writer Antonio Albajara (Antonio Ferrandis) returned to his native Spain after more than forty years. He arrived in his Gijon somewhat incognito just after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm, and …

    Probably the most famous, perhaps the best film by Douglas Sirk, today the legendary melodrama “Imitation of Life” was the last one he made. Although “Imitation of Life” was commercially his most successful …

Mahamat – Saleh Haroum is the first filmmaker from Chad, a backward Central African country located between Libya in the north, Sudan in the west and Niger and Nigeria in the east. Back in the …

Here is another quasi-horror about the trauma of African Americans and systematic racism disguised as horror. Debutante Mariame Diallo’s film is over in Sundance, but this story about three black women haunted by real and …