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Franz: Becoming Kafka drops breadcrumbs for the audience to follow to go on their own search for an author who shapeshifts in our understanding; and in adopting that openness and style, Holland has made a stunning literary biographical work.…
In the cosiness of Paris in winter, red wine dinners, and old lovers in new trysts, it seems the pleasure of A Private Life is in the fantasy of bourgeois misadventures.…
Le Notti Bianche is a stunningly beautiful story of yearning and loving beyond what outsiders would deem reasonable.…
Mother Mary is depending on metaphors to express how an essential creative act and bond can never be fully explained, nor can it be completely abandoned.…
Barker’s film is uncomfortably funny and filled with left-field set pieces that will have the audience gasping.…
If you’re happy to just exist in the world of the characters then The Devil Wears Prada 2 is going to fit perfectly. If you’d like something “groundbreaking” the film isn’t it. Ironically, it’s more comfy sweats than haute couture.…
It may present itself as a gentle comedy of manners, but Days and Nights in the Forest is a deeply confronting film once you peel the layers.…
Parish Malfitano’s horror/melodrama Salt Along the Tongue is made in Australia but its bones are European. Specifically, the bones are primarily Italian, but Malfitano extends the film to the many nat…
Hokum /ˈhoʊkəm/ noun. [noncount] informal Chiefly US: foolish or untrue words or ideas. Nonsense. Irish director Damian McCarthy has been refining his craft over his three features. Caveat and Oddi…
“Call my name and I’ll come home.” Bryn Chainey’s faerie folk-horror Rabbit Trap is narratively uneven but atmospherically effective. Set in 1973 in Cymru (Wales) a married couple have moved from Lon…
Warwick Thornton said that Wolfram acts as an antidote to its stunning forebear Sweet Country – a film that cost the director and his cast and crew a great deal emotionally to make. With the scars of…
Anemoia is my debut feature film, a story pulsing with emotions, strung by the quiet ache of lives half in reality and half in dreams. It follows Casey, a restless romantic, chasing a world that feels…