“Parasite”: Film Review
The class struggle is alive and well, it seems, and depicted with brilliant and explosively exuberant joie de vivre in director Bong Joon Ho’s black comedy.
“Parasite” B&W Edition: Film Review
While Bong Joon Ho’s spectacularly successful Parasite was collecting awards in Cannes and at the Oscars, its black & white twin was quietly waiting in the vaults – or maybe in the basement of a beautiful but foreboding modernist villa.
“The Truth”: Film Review
A palimpsestic chamber piece in a minor key, Kore-eda’s “The Truth” stars Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche in a film that is as French as they come – almost.
“9 Fingers” (9 doigts): Film Review
Magloire (Paul Hamy) is a man on a journey to nowhere, or more accurately, Nowhereland.
“Thelma”: an Interview with Joachim Trier and Eili Harboe
Joachim Trier’s film “Thelma”, made with his long-term collaborators, writer Eskil Vogt, cinematographer Jakob Ihre and composer Ola Fløttum, marks a new development in the director’s career.
“Las Herederas (The Heiresses)”: Interview with Marcelo Martinessi
A long relationship plays out in a world of light and dark among the upper classes of Paraguay. Director/writer Marcelo Martinessi talks about his Berlinale prize-winning film.
“Imitation Girl”: Film Review
In the empty, rock-strewn landscape of the New Mexico desert, a meteorite pierces through the cloudy sky.
“Call Me By Your Name”: Film Review
Charming and bucolic, a meandering story of a summer idyll unexpectedly builds up into something deeply moving and memorable.
“The Florida Project”: Film Review
Mayhem reigns wherever Moonee (Brooklyn Prince), an irrepressible six-year-old, leads her friends. She is a little tornado of mischief, and has an answer for everything.
“Padre”: Film Review
Giada Colagrande’s latest film explores love after loss, in a richly musical and luminous story.
“Roma”: Film Review
An aesthetically stunning cinematic feat, Roma gives a vivid account of a Mexico City childhood set against a backdrop of surging political repression.
“Shiraz: A Romance of India”: Film Review
It is a delight to see how a film can make the past feel so vivid. In the case of Shiraz, doubly so. Made in 1928, Shiraz tells the tale of a great love which came to be immortalised in stone – in the shape of the Taj Mahal.
“The Lady Eve”: Film Review
Self-possessed, proud, glacially witty and maddeningly funny: Barbara Stanwyck is a dame like no other in this scintillating, effervescent screwball comedy.
“The Ritual”: Film Review
What better way to transcend harrowing guilt and grief, than to be immersed in a world of primal fear?
“Jawbone”: Film Review
South London, City lights in the distance. The crepuscular gloom envelops a man felled by loss, drink and impending homelessness. He has nowhere to go, and no loved ones. Yet “Jawbone” is a quietly exhilarating film.