Happening
Few movies can be as topical right now as Happening. It plunges us back to the rotten old days when there were almost zero options out of an unwanted pregnancy.
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Anaïs in Love
Part of the movie’s punch can be chalked up to the sheer audacity of its titular character: a monster of self-absorption, flighty, rude, and prone to oversharing and interrupting.
Hit the Road
A family heads for the Iranian borderlands in a story of flight and escape.
Paris, 13th District
Director Jacques Audiard goes lighter this time around with a study of reckless and sometimes feckless youth.
You Won’t Be Alone
Director Goran Stolevski’s folk/psychological/body/art-house horror may burrow under your skin and lodge itself there.
Intregalde
Radu Munteanu’s mordant comedy slides from a Romanian Green Acres to the grotesque.
Huda’s Salon
A claustrophobic sense of entrapment pervades Hany Abu-Assad’s Palestine-based political thriller.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2022
The annual event offers a spotlight on women directors and coming-of-age stories, a festival staple.