Author: Felix

  A completely unexpected film surprise comes to us from the French part of Switzerland. An emotional, poignant and moving drama about girls from a home for neglected children, which is also a kind of …

Glauber Rocha is still considered to be the most influential and important Brazilian filmmaker, the founder of the modernist Cinema Novo movement there, which, like in other parts of the world, was a certain response …

Hsiao-hsien Hou’s historical drama is the first of three Taiwanese films to win the Golden Lion in Venice, and today “A City o Sadness” is considered one of the highlights not only of Hou’s work, …

This artistic animated film brings us the life story of Charlotte Salomon, a German painter of Jewish origin, who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz in 1943. And it is about one of those …

A solid folk horror comes to us from the Netherlands, and screenwriter and director Nico van den Brink wisely used local legends and made a slow-burning film thematically somewhat in the footsteps of the iconic …

Emily (Aubrey Plaza) is a real anti-heroine of our time. A woman in her thirties who is up to her neck in debt and still struggling to pay off her student loan, in large part …

Experienced French filmmaker Claire Denis (Beau Travail, High Life) was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director in Berlin for this combination of drama, thriller and romance. Except for the direction, the awards could easily …

Kelli Dillon is an African-American woman who ended up in prison in the early 2000s. For years, her husband beat and mistreated her, she killed him and ended up in prison for 15 years. After …

The feature-length Lebanese debutant Mounia Akl presented herself at the Venice festival with a striking and brilliantly thought-out drama set in her country in the near future. Eight years ago, Walid (Saleh Bakri) and Souraya …

Peter Strickland is an avant-garde British filmmaker who the vast majority of average filmgoers have probably never heard of. He makes rather bizarre, hermetic films, so he presented himself with the acclaimed “Berberian Sound Studio” …