Tag: movie plot

“Geula” means redemption in Hebrew, but it is also the name of the seriously ill six-year-old daughter of the film’s main protagonist, the old rocker Menachem, who many years ago became one of those orthodox …

Moroccan Maryam Touzani presented a gentle, emotional and complex drama in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes festival. This filmmaker, born in Tangier, entered the world of film as a journalist before switching …

This docu-drama, along with “Triumph of the Will” by the German Lena Riefenstahl, is probably the best proof that a classic propaganda, agit-prop film can also have exceptional aesthetic and artistic value. Although it is …

If I were to make a list of my ten favorite actors of all time, Peter O’Toole would definitely be on it. This masterful British actor of Irish origin is one of those who never …

After a good three years of delay, I finally managed to find this film by the extraordinary Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Que dios nos perdone, El Reino, Antidisturbios series). Before “Mother”, I even managed to …

What do I think about the scourge of remakes, reboots and all other forms of rape and draining of legendary horror classics that have appeared in recent years, I have written several times. Well, at …

The Filipino Lav Diaz has long since taken over from the Hungarian Bela Tarr the baton of the pioneer of the film style or movement called slow-cinema. This graduate in economics, who entered the film …

Based on the novel by the popular Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbö, the strange and bizarre Nordic noir thriller was filmed by the Italian-American filmmaker Francesco Carrozzini in an Italian-British co-production and in that typically gloomy, …

After he won the critic’s prize in the Horizonti section of the Venice festival, European critics went so far as to compare the Turkish filmmaker Mahmut Fazi Coskun with the Finnish Aki Kaurismäki, the Swede …

Canadian filmmaker of Chinese origin Yung Chang shot a documentary adventure about the controversial British journalist and war reporter Robert Fisk. Unfortunately, just a few months after the premiere of “This is Not a Movie”, …