A Matter of Trust, Two Sisters and a Husband, We Might as Well Be Dead | Tribeca Festival 2022
Three international selections to keep an eye on.
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Attention Distributors: January; Pink Moon | Tribeca Festival 2022
Two European prize winners from the recent festival.
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Though supposedly the characters are messy and flawed, the film’s second half feels like a disguised PSA for behaving nice and having functional conversations.
The Innocents
Childhood is a time when boundaries are set and tested. As such, the line between kindness and cruelty can be especially hazy. René Clément’s Forbidden Games (1952) dramatizes two children’s fascination with death, which leads them to kill an animal; Richard Hughes’s brilliant novel A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) views a group of children […]
The Tale of King Crab
A film that hearkens back to folkloric storytelling.
Nitram
Director Justin Kurzel envisions the days leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre from the killer’s point of view. The emphasis here is on understanding the context that led to the tragedy, without excusing either the killer or the crime.
The Outfit
The well-paced thriller hums along at such a quick clip that it’s easy to hold reservations until after the credits have rolled.
