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Immediately after the first two episodes of this five-part mini-series were shown in Cannes, critics cut “The Idol” down. And indeed, it turned out to be even worse than I suspected, and the son of …

The literary rule of the Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov has long been known that if we see a gun in the first act, someone will surely fire it in the last act. The rules …

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The triptych “Paradise” is probably still the most famous thing shot by the controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl. With the first part of the trilogy, which was subtitled “Love”, Seidl presented himself at Cannes, and …

The Japanese Mitsuo Yanagimachi presented a realistic social and extremely current drama in the main program of the festival in Berlin. We could call this not too well-known author the forerunner of his much more …

Larry Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) is a drifter and drunk from rural Arkansas who is accidentally found in prison by radio host Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal). On a local radio station in rural northeast Arkansas, …

Another film that takes us to Bulgaria during communism and the rule of the Romanian counterpart of Nicolae Ceausescu, Todor Živkov. The year is 1971 and the communist dictatorship is at its peak, but the …

Shane Meadows is a great British filmmaker now in his middle generation who I always like to say brought traditional British kitchen-sink realism into the 21st century. From the very beginnings and his first films, …

In the spring of 2021, American troops left Afghanistan after two full decades of warfare in that centuries-long troubled region. The war in Afghanistan is also the longest war in which the US has ever …

The Portuguese Cristele Alves Meira presented herself in the critics’ week of the festival in Cannes with an unusual drama set in a Portuguese province. Although magical realism is primarily associated with Latin America, this …