“Tell me a tale of thyself, so that I may know thee.” “I have none to tell.” “Yet.” This exchange, early on in David Lowery’s stunning new film, The Green Knight, between King Arthur, his nephew Gawain, and Queen Guinevere...
In Edson Oda’s affecting debut feature Nine Days, Will (Winston Duke) is a man who lives alone in a house that stands isolated in the middle of a vast desert landscape. It is his job, we learn, to interview prospective...
When we first meet Sylwia (Magdalana Kolesnik), the protagonist of Magnus von Horn’s Sweat, she is happy. Ecstatically so, in fact. She’s leading a massive group workout session in the common area of a Warsaw shopping mall, cheering on the...
Benoît Jacquot makes a lot of movies. His newest, Casanova, Last Love, is the fourth I’m reviewing for this site in the last ten years and that doesn’t even represent half of his output in that time. Given his prolificity...
The gangster movie has long been a Hollywood staple. As far back as the 1930s, filmmakers drew inspiration from Prohibition Era figures like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, producing some of the most iconic movies in film history. Since then,...
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, the arrestingly titled new feature from Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska, opens with a handful of shots that seem to exist out of sequence from the compact narrative timeline of the rest of the...
When you watch Abel Ferrera’s Siberia, you’ll be tempted to “figure it out” and engage with the film the way you would with any conceptual work of art. This might sound biased or opinionated but if you go into this...
Even before any images appear onscreen, François Ozon’s Summer of 85 is alive. Shot on 16MM film, the grain swims about on a black screen just before an instrumental cover of The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” kicks in and plays...
