Alice Rohrwacher’s winsome fable needs the viewer to go along for the ride.
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Charcoal (Carvão) (2022)
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Beyond Utopia (2022)
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What starts as a talking heads documentary about North Korean defectors becomes a gripping race to safety as we follow a family who have crossed the border into a hostile China.
Continue readingBlackbird Blackbird Blackberry (შაშვი შაშვი მაყვალი)(2023)
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Four Daughters (Les Filles d’Olfa) (2023)
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This is one of the most heartfelt and inventive documentaries I ever remember seeing.
Continue readingThe Eternal Memory (2023)
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Maite Alberdi allows us to travel back-and-forth through the life of writer Augusto Góngora. Part of the documentation and reconciliation after Chile’s fascist junta, his own memories are now scattering with Alzheimer’s.
Continue readingAnimalia (Parmi Nous)(2023)
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An enigmatic sci-fi-adjacent Moroccan mystical mood piece – which is a term, I never thought I would use.
Continue readingPerpetrator (2023)
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“Perpetrator perp-perpetrator, you’re a perpetrator.” The beats of Britney Spears’ Womanizer oddly fit this chaotic, feminist body horror by Jennifer Reeder.
Continue readingÀma Gloria (2023)
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Capturing the world of a six-year-old child with astounding authenticity, Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq shows us a time in our lives before we understand the larger world.
Continue readingIt’s Only Life After All (2023)
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My heart was full after spending two hours with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers a.k.a. the Indigo Girls.
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