Clint (Willem Dafoe) is a broken man. Hoping for peace, he retreats to a remote mountain cabin to seek serenity in isolation. In this winter landscape, he runs a modest cafe, visited only occasionally by a rare traveler or native of the region. Even isolation cannot offer peace to this damaged man. Desperate for an […]
Continue readingFor her second feature, director Zeina Durra installs her camera in the intoxicating historic city of Luxor, Egypt. British aid worker Hana (a bewitching Andrea Riseborough) returns to Luxor, escaping the intensity of her humanitarian work treating victims of the war on the Jordanian- Syrian border. On a boat in the ancient city, Hana encounters […]
Continue readingTo a nomad in the sparse Mongolian dessert, Milk is a coveted source of nourishment contained in all traditional food. It is also a symbol of the virtuous nature of women, their rite of passage into motherhood and destined place in the world as a giver. Directrice and actress Uisenma Borchu boldly portrays an unsettled […]
Continue readingThis powerful social chronical from Saudi director Haifaa Al Mansour (Wadjda, Mary Shelley) received a Golden Lion nomination at the Venice International Film Festival. In a small Saudi town, Maryam – a young doctor –walks into bureaucratic obstacles at every turn, struggling to improve daily life in her clinic.he turns her frustration into resolve, deciding […]
Continue reading‘Chaplin, not Hitler’ is the refrain of an unexpected resistance, inspired by a spirit of imagination. The story of aFrench secret network which saved the orphaned children of Jewish families from the Nazis, and the legendary mime who was part of its ranks. Marcel Marceau (Jesse Eisenberg) is the iconic silent hero, who sustained children’s […]
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