It Will Happen Tonight pulls off a very difficult trick: it takes a story of infidelity and makes it exceptionally romantic. This is a huge surprise, because obviously you really shouldn’t be going around falling in love with people who aren’t the ones you married. But everyone knows the heart …
Beneath the structure of the international film festivals, the potential of smaller ones is understated. Every filmmaker dreams of Cannes, Berlin, NYFF, London, TIFF, Venice and others. However, for young upcoming filmmakers, especially those in the peripheries of the globe, the journey is even harder to get their films programmed …
Gustavo Vinagre and Gurcius Gewdner are a duo of filmmakers who, despite their young age, are already veterans in the Brazilian cinema. Vinagre focuses more on queer stories, ranging from his work in films like Três Tigres Tristes, A Rosa Azul de Novalis, and Deus tem AIDS. Meanwhile, Gewdner leans …
The Scottish Ballet is justifiably taking a great deal of pride in These Violent Delights. The dance company is one of the artistic endeavours Scotland is most proud of and this movie – a modern version of Romeo and Juliet, told entirely through dance – will bring its its ethos …
Despite a prolific career with his short films, the Brazilian director Allan Deberton made a splash with his Pacarrete in 2019, a well-received debut that audiences and critics admired during its release rollout throughout the pandemic. The film explored a dreamer who bothers her neighborhood over her failed dream of …
It is so depressing to watch a movie that should have been fun, but isn’t. The Spiral is worse than a prank gone wrong. It’s even worse than telling someone on their way home from a funeral to smile. When a movie should have been a camp delight and is …
It might be necessary to have a certain kind of family to truly appreciate this kind of disaster movie. If you know someone – your sister-in-law, perhaps? Or your least favourite cousin? – whose reaction on learning another relative will not be attending Christmas dinner is “How dare that bitch …
The self-indulgence of Hombre al Agua (which translates to “Man Overboard”) is kind of its point, for it’s about the ways people play parts in their lives and how privilege allows the privileged to change the terms of the act. Fortunately a movie in which the writer-director-coproducer also stars as …
A family is a fragile thing too often taken for granted, and once the love is gone it’s very hard to bring back. A Common Story has an unusual gimmick: it is about a family, but the child hardly features. For she has grown up and gone off to university, …
Sometimes it feels like modern technology has given us the worst of both worlds. We have the capacity to be constantly connected with our loved ones no matter where in the world we may be. This can provide the illusion that we are in the same place as those we …
So this is how the world ends: not with a bang, but with a bunch of French politicians arguing with each other in a meeting room. As France grapples with the new world order, where America is no longer an ally and Russia is very much worse, its art has …
Quentin Dupieux is not only an electronic musician (who earned a UK number one back in 1999) but also the finest surrealist filmmaker of our times. To say his movies are unpredictable, illogical, ridiculous and violent is an understatement. But their wildness and their misbehaviour has the feel of ordinary …
It was notable at this year’s Cannes how many movies re-examined France and the Second World War. It’s been obvious for some years now how the French film industry has been retelling its own stories and creating blockbusters for home audiences without caring too much about how they’ll land overseas. …
The director Sebastian Brameshuber presents his new film at this year’s Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. London portrays the life of a seventy-two-year-old man, Bobby Sommer, who drives back and forth between Vienna and Salzburg, in Austria. He gives lifts to people traveling to these cities and he …
For a movie about the limits of memory, Blue Heron made the bad decision to be from the point of the youngest family member. That’s to say, the person present with the most limited understanding of what was happening while it was happening. The fact that the young daughter, Sasha …
Dollars to donuts director Rodrigo Sorogoyen was not happy to learn about Sentimental Value. Its brief outline is the same to that of The Beloved – volatile director tries to reconnect with his daughter by working with her on a movie – but of course Sentimental Value came out last …
The most shocking thing in Parallel Tales is Isabelle Huppert lighting a cigarette with a toaster. There’s a sense of unpredictability in that one moment that the rest of Parallel Tales was aiming for and somehow didn’t achieve. It’s hard to say why it falls so flat, since there is …
In the rich history of Brazilian filmmaking, animation is a medium that does not have as profound a filmography as others. Before the 2000s, there were very few examples, like Meow by Marcos Magalhães and Frankenstein Punk by Cao Hamburger and Eliana Fonseca. However, in the 2000s, the animation sector …
Emmanuel Marre won the Best Screenplay Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for A Man of His Time aka Notre Salut, because it does the impossible: it is a comedy about the slide into fascism. But the film is clearly of personal as well as professional importance to Mr. …
One of the most culturally talked-about moments of 2026 was the Super Bowl Halftime Show performed by Bad Bunny. Despite the political opposition from the far-right groups, who considered his choice as non-American (even if Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States), the fifteen-minute show was a success. …