Probably Japan’s greatest living director, Hirokazu Koreeda, made perhaps the weakest film in his more than 30-year career in South Korea. Four years earlier, Koreeda was awarded the Palme d’Or in Cannes for “Shoplifters”, and …
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Probably Japan’s greatest living director, Hirokazu Koreeda, made perhaps the weakest film in his more than 30-year career in South Korea. Four years earlier, Koreeda was awarded the Palme d’Or in Cannes for “Shoplifters”, and …
Continue readingExactly half a century has passed since the release of the film that many consider the best and greatest of all time. Of course, we are talking about the masterpiece “The Godfather” by one of …
Continue readingOne real craziness of a movie comes to us from Egypt, and “Feathers” by feature film debutant from Egypt Omar El Zohairy is one of those discoveries that makes it worth wasting your time on …
Continue readingThis drama is considered one of the last films of the Czechoslovak new wave. Jaromil Jareš started shooting the film based on the novel by the famous Milan Kundera while Czechoslovakia was liberalized, but “Zert” …
Continue readingThe role of the head of an Irish gangster organization was also the last role in the career of one of the greatest American actors of all time, Paul Newman. Newman’s career lasted more than …
Continue readingAlready when his parents named him Mendel (Tenoch Huerta, who is still best remembered as Rafael Caro Quintero from Narcos), they clearly predestined the fate of the main protagonist of this arty metaphorical Mexican drama. …
Continue readingA few years ago, the young American filmmaker Riley Stearns presented himself with “The Art of Self-Defense”, an unusual dark humor thriller, and his next film is even more unusual, bizarre. I have the impression …
Continue readingThis neo-noir drama fits both visually and thematically into modern Chinese cinema and tries to follow films like “Black Coal, Thin Ice” and “Wild Goose Lake” by Yi’nan Diao or perhaps “Touch of Sin” by …
Continue readingThis lavishly humorous crime drama with a star-studded cast had as many as ten Oscar nominations, but David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” ended up not confirming a single one. It was the year when Steve …
Continue readingWanda (Agnieszka Grochowska) is a Polish woman employed as a carer for 70-year-old Swiss Joseph, a rich industrialist who is bedridden after a stroke. Apparently, Wanda has been working for this family for some time …
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