‘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
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
