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 […]
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Victor (Daniel Auteuil) and Marianne (Fanny Ardant) are married in name only. Very little binds them together; she is openly unfaithful and gratuitously mocks her husband, he is morose and disillusioned. After their inevitable split, he meets entrepreneur Antoine (Guillaume Canet) and a strange opportunity arises: Victor can go back in time, to any moment […]
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Amador Coro (Amador Arias Mon) has served time for arson. When his sentence is up, nobody is waiting for him at the prison gates. He retreats to his hometown, a small village hidden in the mountains of remote Galicia (Spain), to live with his mother, Benedicta (Benedicta Sánchez), and their three cows. Life goes by […]
Continue readingLeo (Javier Bardem) lies in bed, confused and lost in his thoughts preoccupied by the uneasy sense that people no longer take him seriously. With proverbial tender loving care, his daughter Molly (Elle Fanning), accompanies him to New York. Even though her job is on the line, she sticks with her chaotically minded father who […]
Continue readingAfter the captivating 2018 concept-horror, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) return in their post-apocalyptic world of silence, this time to face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the blind creatures that hunt by sound and who have killed much of the […]
Continue readingStarring Oscar nominee Dev Patel with an exceptional supporting cast, including Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, and Ben Wishaw, this is a gloriously entertaining careening through 19th-century England, tracking its hero’s zigzag destiny. Born six months after the death of his father, David (Patel) is lucky to be raised by a loving mother. But when Mum […]
Continue readingThe story of a loyal band of Cubans who flee their country in the 1990s in order to infiltrate anti-Castro organisations in Florida. The latest film from prolific director Olivier Assayas is a fast-paced ride of intrigue and espionage. Adapted from “The Last Soldiers of the Cold War,” a nonfiction account of their lives by […]
Continue readingAmid seductively ominous neon-lit alleyways and the claustrophobia of gloomy apartment blocks, something shady is going on. In the style of “Pulp Fiction,” debut director Kim Yonghoon assembles disparate puzzle pieces into a neo-noir crime farce about a cash-filled Louis Vuitton bag – the metaphorical baton in a hilariously grim relay race of cunning thievery […]
Continue readingDan Friedkin’s engrossing directorial debut is based on the true story of the 20th century’s most ingenious art forger. It follows Han van Meegeren (Guy Pearce), a famous socialite, who is said to have profited from the sale of a Vermeer painting to Hermann Göring, one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi party. […]
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