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 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 Last Day of Summer
They have no names. They are the only people on the windy beach of an anonymous Baltic Sea resort town... 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 Mercenary Soldier
Beginning with a sequence that challenges even the unforgettable opening of Touch of Evil (1958), Anssi Mänttäri’s The Mercenary Soldier... View Article
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The Missile
The Missile, a carnivalisation of 1980s Finland that equates violation of the national border with invasion of privacy, begins when... View Article
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The Northern Star
Saara Cantell’s new documentary The Northern Star dives into the twists and turns of acting legend Anneli Sauli’s (1932-2022) unbelievable... 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 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 Tale of Tales / Cancelled
Yuri Norstein’s animation exudes a concentrated feeling, progressing in gentle bursts of images and flashes of a time that may... View Article
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