‘oYour ordeal is worth it!” This is the shout-out from one of Mona Fastvold’s film stalwarts, who co-wrote The Brutalist with her partner in film, Brady Corbet. A fierce, passionate, shocking and sometimes disconcerting drama about Ann Lee, a historical figure who endured religious persecution as the leader of the fundamentalist Shaker movement in 18th-century […]
dDirector Kleber Mendonça Filho’s new film, set against the backdrop of Brazil’s 1970s dictatorship, combines visual brilliance, sensual metropolitan intrigue, shaggy dog comedy, creepy underclass strolls and narratively languorous mystery to create something special. It is about the everyday ugliness of political tyranny, both high and low, and its themes and contemporary perspectives can be
meCelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason gave us the haunting historical drama Godland and the challenging and bizarre thriller A White, White Day. Now he’s changed things up with this surprising, funny, and vaguely disappointing film. The Love That Remains is a portrait of a fractured family and a fractured marriage, using dreamy piano scores, fantastical fantasies
hourHere is a mysterious and eerie prose poem about guilt, shame and longing in 20th-century Germany and 21st-century Germany. It is a drama in which intergenerational trauma, genetic memories, visions and experiences are repressed and passed on to descendants and grandchildren, which can return as neurotic symptoms of the repressed people. With its visual rhymes
DKen Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty are the heart of modern England, a zero-hour vassalage and service-economic abundant land-the tradition of Loach's previous works and a vigorous passion that came from a country reaching back Came back to Khan through. To the bike thief of Vittorio De Sica. They are fierce, open, angry, ironic and