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 […]
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Adapted from a 1980 novel by Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, “Waiting for the Barbarians” is set in a frontier outpost of an unnamed colony, somewhere in a desert, sometime in the first few decades of the last century. This lack of specificity heightens the callousness of the newly arrived state security officers (led by a […]
Continue readingThis beautifully animated film, full of humor and surprise, is a touching and powerful allegory about the absurdity of war and the importance of family and community.The son of Léonce, King of Bears, has been kidnapped by hunters in the Sicilian mountains and his subjects are also starving after a harsh winter. The bears must […]
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