Christine (Eva Green) is a fashion designer whose life seems perfect at first. Her husband Felix (Mark Strong) is a successful marketing consultant, they also have a daughter, but one day Christine will mysteriously fall …
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Christine (Eva Green) is a fashion designer whose life seems perfect at first. Her husband Felix (Mark Strong) is a successful marketing consultant, they also have a daughter, but one day Christine will mysteriously fall …
Continue readingFive years after the perfect “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”, Martin McDonagh made an equally wonderful film. A film that is thematically and stylistically completely different from its predecessors, yet simply perfect, unrepeatable, original, emotional, …
Continue readingAlthough the slave trade in the USA was nominally prohibited as early as 1820, when a law was passed declaring the overseas slave trade to be piracy, slaves from Africa were arriving illegally in the …
Continue readingDavid (Georgian actor Merab Ninidze) is a university professor of literature who will find himself in serious trouble when he publishes a caricature of the mayor of an unnamed provincial town in a sexual clinch …
Continue readingCatalan Oriol Paulo has previously presented himself as a master of psychological thrillers. His “Body” (El Cuerpo) and especially “Invisible Guest” (Contratiempo) were masterfully conceived and directed thrillers, and after the weaker SF “Mirage”, Paulo …
Continue readingThe Austrian Empress Elizabeth, better known as Sissi, is primarily remembered from films from the fifties when she was portrayed by the young Romy Schneider. They were films that completely romanticized the idea of a …
Continue readingWhen it comes to Hollywood romantic comedies, the winning formula was probably laid out in the golden age of Hollywood and not much has changed in these almost hundred years. Then again, those fairy-tale romantic …
Continue readingWhite Lotus is a first-class tourist resort that offers its guests top luxury in some exotic and beautiful destinations. A dream vacation is offered there, but that week of paradise will turn into hell in …
Continue readingJohn Boorman is a British filmmaker who is primarily remembered for cult films such as “Deliverance” and “Excalibur”, and in this humorous, partly autobiographical drama, he recalled growing up in England during World War II. …
Continue readingWith this film (to some extent also the later “Alleluia”), the Belgian Fabrice Du Welz turned into one of my favorite film madmen, and this diabolical combination of horror and black comedy is the perfect …
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