Destined to confound, this sometimes surreal drama (with a touch of horror) sits in an uncomfortable space between metaphor and realism.
Continue readingTommy Guns (Nação Valente) (2023)
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The Lost City of Melbourne (2022)
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A gentle love letter to Melbourne that will make you look up with a new appreciation of what you probably walk past every day.
Continue readingOldboy (올드보이) (2003)
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I’m not sure what I was expecting from Oldboy but I didn’t think it would be quite so hard to watch.
Continue readingLeonor Will Never Die (Ang Pagbabalik ng Kwago) (2022)
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Leonor Will Never Die takes us on a madcap ride through Filipino 80s action movies that is so meta it is like a Möbius strip.
Continue readingUnder the Fig Trees (2021)
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Erige Sehiri makes her fiction and feature debut with this sun-dappled pastoral day in the lives of Tunisian workers harvesting figs.
Continue readingHit the Road (2021)
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There’s a lot to like about this debut feature by Panah Panahi, son of Iranian legend Jafar Panahi (Three Faces, Tehran Taxi).
Continue readingUtama (2022)
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Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s impressive first feature reminded me of Aga (2018) in its often wordless depiction of indigenous peoples eking out an existence in a vast and remote plain.
Continue readingThe Integrity of Joseph Chambers (2022)
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I loved Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers (2020) and he again examines a crisis of masculinity in rural America, albeit through a simpler tale.
Continue readingOne Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin) (2022)
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It’s enough that Léa Seydoux is in every frame to give reason to watch this delicate French Rohmer-esque drama from Mia Hansen-Løve.
Continue readingMy Sunny Maad (2021)
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This animation from Czech director Michaela Pavlátová has an interesting premise; a blonde and blue-eyed Czech woman marries an Aghan and goes to live with his family in Kabul as the Taliban increase their dominance.
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