Month: January 2023

Already with the first film he made (Girl), the young Belgian screenwriter and director Lukas Dhont (born in 1991) became a favorite of European critics, and he confirmed that status with the next film. “Close” …

Thandie Newton is Sandra Guidry, a professor at a university somewhere in western Montana and the only black woman in that rather desolate part of the American interior. She lived alone with her mother, who …

  In order not to think too much about the time period in which he set the action of his debut feature film, Vincent Mael Cardona immediately takes us to the election night of 1981 …

Danish visionary Nicolas Winding Refn (Trilogy Pusher, Valhalla Rising, Drive, Neon Demon, Too Old To Die Young) has completely released the brakes in the series he filmed in Denmark for Netflix. “Copenhagen Cowboy” is the …

Vatroslav Mimica is one of the greatest Croatian filmmakers of all time who started making films in the early fifties in a classic realistic style, and then he founded a cartoon studio in Zagreb and …

I guess two decades after I first (and until recently, only) saw the mystery sci-fi drama that the then 25-year-old Richard Kelly made his debut at Sundance, I decided to take another look at this …

Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke are Raymond and Ray, half-brothers who will meet after almost five years without contact and after learning that their father has died. Although neither of them had been in contact …

Michel Hazanavicius is a Lithuanian-born French filmmaker who is still best known for the unexpected Oscar winner for Best Picture in 2011, The Artist. That black-and-white comedy shot in the silent film technique also brought …

  The song “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen is one of the most famous songs written in the last half century. It is a song that almost has the status of an anthem, a song that …

After the excellent “Marriage Story”, Noah Baumbach made perhaps the most ambitious film to date, a bizarre combination of comedy, drama and fantasy set in the eighties of the last century, but “White Noise” turned …