The Pupils
The Pupils, which earned writer-director Alice Rohrwacher and producer Alfonso Cuarón an Oscar nomination, is a Christmas movie classic-to-be sure... View Article
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The Owners
A Kazakh cult film? Absolutely. Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s third feature film The Owners is a wild tragicomedy in which “Aki Kaurismäki... View Article
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The Lovers on the Bridge
In Les amants du Pont-Neuf, two rebellious outcasts – Alex (Denis Lavant), an addict dreaming of a circus career and... View Article
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The Hole
The Four Times (2010) by Michelangelo Frammartino is one of the most perfect yet peculiar films of the 21st century. It... View Article
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The Gift
Frammartino’s debut tells the interwoven stories of an old man and a young girl in a remote Calabrian village. The... View Article
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The Gentle Indifference of the World
Getting its title from Albert Camus’ The Stranger, The Gentle Indifference of the World is a minimalist but colourful and... View Article
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The Four Times
Should you make the mistake of thinking you have seen it all, here is something thoroughly original: a favourite of... View Article
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Steppenwolf
Kazakhstani director Adilkhan Yerzhanov has channeled his distinctive directorial voice into his latest film, Steppenwolf, a stylistic homage to Westerns... View Article
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Sex
The first part of Dag Johan Haugerud’s ambitious trilogy, Sex, is NOT a sex film with physical erotic scenes –... View Article
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Roma
Based on Cuarón’s youthful experiences and impressively shot by the director himself in black and white, the film is a... View Article
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