Camila (Nina Dziembrowski) is a teenager who lives with her mother and younger sister in Mar del Plata, but will have to move them to Buenos Aires when her grandmother becomes seriously ill. And from …
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REVOIR PARIS (2022, FRANCE) – 7/10
Belgian actress Virginie Efira, who is perhaps best remembered as the sexy nun from Verhoeven’s “Benedette”, won the Cesar award for French actress of the year in the shocking drama Alice Winocour (Disorder, Proxima). Efira …
Continue readingJU DOU (1990, CHN) – 8/10
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Continue readingA TIME TO LIVE AND TIME TO DIE (1958, USA)
Douglas Sirk is today considered one of the greatest authors of classic melodrama in American film, and this war melodrama is probably his most personal film. Sirk was born in 1897 as Hans Detlef Sierck …
Continue readingZATOPEK (2021, CZECH REPUBLIC) – 7/10
Emil Zatopek is a Czech athlete whose name is probably remembered by all those who at least follow athletics. The Czech Locomotive, as he was called, at the 1952 Olympic Games managed to achieve something …
Continue readingSANCTUARY (2022, USA) – 6.5/10
Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott are Rebecca and Hal, a dominatrix and a rich pervert, a masochist who is about to take over the family corporation after the death of his father. As the film …
Continue readingTHE FOREVER PRISONER (2021, USA) – 8.5/10
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Continue readingAFTER THE WINTER (2021, CRG) – 6.5/10
I usually catch a few Montenegrin films during the Zagreb Film Festival, when in the accompanying section they also offer some works from partner festivals online for free. This time, the choice fell on “After …
Continue readingSOMEWHERE IN QUEENS (2022, USA) – 7/10
Ray Romano is still best remembered for the comedy series “Everybody Loves Raymond” in which he played an Italian-American sports reporter from Long Island with everyday problems. Now Ray has moved from Long Island to …
Continue readingPUGALO / SCARECROW (2020, RUS) – 6/10
This was another in a series of new Russian films set somewhere deep in the provinces, more precisely in the Russian province of Sakha in the northeast. The region is known for its extremely harsh …
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