Month: August 2022

Korean master Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Mr. and Mrs. Vengeance, Thirst) returned six years after the mysterious thriller “The Handmaiden” with perhaps not so much thematically but stylistically similar film that won him the award for …

We often hear someone say that he has had enough of everything and that he will leave all the benefits of civilization and go live somewhere in the forest, far from everyone and everything. That …

As the title suggests, this biographical documentary brings us the life story of Rita Moreno, an American actress with a long and successful career who is only one of the few people who have won …

A hallucinatory and borderline surreal psychological drama which premiered at the festival in San Sebastianit was filmed by the Swiss Simon Jaquemet, and the excellent Judith Hoffman won the award for the best Swiss actress …

  The Belgian Bouli Lanners wrote and directed the romantic drama in which he played the main role – the mysterious Belgian Phil who settled on an isolated island in the north of Scotland. This …

The extremely dark Hong Kong thriller premiered out of competition in Berlin, and the brutality and violence of “Limbo” reminded me of the equally “fierce” and bloody Korean revenge thrillers that were filmed fifteen years …

It can already be said that the six-part series by the distinguished Chinese-American documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang (Hooligan Sparrow, One Child Nation, In the Same Breath) is the best true-crime content of 2022. The story …

This avant-garde fantasy was the last film made by the legendary Soviet filmmaker and dissident Sergei Paradzhanov. I already wrote about this author with a unique and truly special style in three of his previous …

James Cagney was one of the biggest stars of the period that is called the golden era of Hollywood, and today he is mostly remembered for the roles of gangsters or similar dangerous types. It …

In 1968, Soviet tanks suppressed the Prague Spring, and Michal Noheji set the action of his debut film in an unnamed city in Czechoslovakia immediately after that terrible event. And the action of “Occupation” takes …