In three seasons, this spy series takes us through the final phase of life in communist East Germany. The story begins in 1983, when the Cold War tension between NATO and the Warsaw Pact …
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In three seasons, this spy series takes us through the final phase of life in communist East Germany. The story begins in 1983, when the Cold War tension between NATO and the Warsaw Pact …
Continue readingI usually successfully dodge the vast majority of movie crap, but here and there I step on a few. This is one of those awful, diarrheic movie shits that I wish I could have bypassed, …
Continue readingSince his appearance, Mexican independent filmmaker Michel Franco has not stopped shocking audiences. An author who found an obvious role model in his almost Austrian namesake, Michael Haneke, with each new film he seems to …
Continue readingEven today, this mysterious and quite shocking thriller enjoys a cult status in the Netherlands and throughout Europe, and the strongest asset of George Sluizer’s most famous film is its unusual narrative structure, which further …
Continue readingAnd while more or less all mediocre connoisseurs of the Wild West know about gunslingers like Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok or Wyatt Earp, this classic western brings us a …
Continue readingAnother fine example of Latin American naturalism comes from South America, this time Colombia. Feature film debutant Simon Mesa Soto set the action of this almost docu-drama in the troubled Colombian city of Medellin in …
Continue readingNeil LaBute, due to the disastrous remake of the iconic “The Wicker Man” with Nicolas Cage at the peak of his breakthrough, is still considered the author of one of the worst films of all …
Continue readingIn this hybrid of documentary and animated film, the Swiss Anja Kofmel set out in search of an answer to the question of what happened to her cousin, a Swiss journalist and adventurer who went …
Continue readingThe Iranian Babak Anvari introduced himself a few years ago with the acclaimed horror film “Under the Shadow”, which immediately bought him a ticket to the West, where he studied and holds British citizenship. Anvari …
Continue readingThe biographical drama about the painter, illustrator and caricaturist Tove Jansson, with a budget of 3.4 million euros, was the second most expensive Finnish film of all time, and “Tove” was also a Finnish candidate …
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