It seems that it is not just American filmmakers right now who are turning to the past in order to interrogate the present. However, unlike...
Director Léa Mysius’s feature debut, Ava, has been on an awards roll. After winning best SACD Feature at Cannes and being nominated for the first...
The title of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s new film could possibly refer to two things; the country that he so adoringly yet fatalistically photographs as a backdrop...
Things are looking yummy for director Julia Ducournau. A few years after her short Junior won the Small Golden Rail at Cannes, her first feature,...
“Not only does German humour exist, it might just save your life!” reads one of the review soundbites on the poster for Toni Erdmann. As...
There’s something about female war photographers that seems to attract Norwegian filmmakers. In 2013, Erik Poppe gave us the brilliant A Thousand Times Goodnight, mostly...
Forget about love, said Lars von Trier a couple of years ago with Nymphomaniac. Not so fast, says Gaspar Noé and his new film, provocatively...
Short films are (mostly) very easy to watch, but they are hard creatures to get right. Director Patrick Vollrath has been trying his hand at...
Australian director Justin Kurzel rose to notoriety with his first feature Snowtown. Based on the true story of a series of grisly murders, it has...
Mia Madre is a meta-tale of modern loss. A partly autobiographical depiction of director Nanni Moretti dealing with the loss of his mother during the...