Don’t panic if you couldn’t make it the recent New York Film Festival. Most of the films screened have an American distributor lined up and will open in the upcoming months, like the acclaimed A Separation and The Kid on the Bike. The claustrophobic cacophony Carnage, which opened the event, will be released on December […]
The New York Film Festival has gone back to a basic rule: you gotta have a splashy opening night. For programmers, more thought is often put into the selection of this event than any other selection—it sets the tone and defines what the program represents. The status of last year’s opener, the edgy, big-budget The […]
Directed by Anne Sewitsky
Produced by Synnove Horsdal
Written by Ragnhild Tronvoll
Released by Magnolia Pictures
Norwegian with English subtitles
Norway. 88 min. Rated R
With Agnes Kittelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Henrik Rafaelsen, Oskar Hernaes Bradso & Ram Shihab Ebedy
The title of Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitsky’s debut deliberately sounds like an over-eager pep talk, or possibly a bitter rebuke, […]
Edited, Written & Directed by Andrew Haigh
Produced by Tristan Goligher
Released by Sundance Selects
UK. 86 min. Not rated
With Tom Cullen & Chris New
Two young good-looking guys in their twenties hook up, exchange numbers the morning after, meet that same afternoon and then again that night before one of them has to head off thousands of miles […]
Written, Produced & Directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga
Released by Music Box Films
Lingala & French with English subtitles
Democratic Republic of the Congo. 96 min. Rated R
With Patsha Bay Mukuna, Manie Malone, Hoji Fortuna, Alex Herbo, Marlene Longange, Diplome Amekindra & Angelique Mbumba
Viva Riva! is the first film to be released in the U.S. […]
Written & Directed by Mike Leigh
Produced by Georgina Lowe
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
Finnish with English subtitles
UK. 129 min. Rated PG-13
With Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight, Oliver Maltman, David Bradley & Karina Fernandez
Aspirations inevitably fail (for those who are unlucky, or single). Director Mike Leigh sounds this bleak note again and again in this drama of overstatement. It’s first […]
