Tagged: chicago international film festival
An intimate work of social-realist portraiture in the vein of the Dardenne brothers, A Thief’s Daughter brings us into the life of Sara, a young single mother trying to stay afloat through circumstances that have spiraled beyond her control. As...
It’s telling that Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced was submitted by Sweden, and not Georgia, for Oscar’s Best International Feature Film category. No amount of festival plaudits could have likely convinced the latter country to represent an LGBT film...
Considering the title of Óliver Laxe’s Cannes-laureled third feature film, it’s not giving anything away to mention that, eventually, a fire does come. Raging through a large swath of rural land in Spain’s Galicia region, it becomes a behemoth outmatching...