Sisi & I
A historical drama blessed with two formidable performers, Sandra Hüller and Susanne Wolff.
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Green Border
A border crisis is the subject of Agnieszka Holland’s incendiary new film, which forcefully wears its anger on its sleeve.
The Dead Don’t Hurt
Vicky Krieps’s masterly performance carries this flawed but compelling character study masquerading as a western.
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
Accompanied by an often swelling orchestral score, director Marco Bellocchio is unafraid to go for broke telling this true story set in the mid-19th century.
Taking Venice
An engaging look back when American culture was used to combat communism.
Jeanne du Barry
A conventional costume drama about mostly pompous and entitled characters set against an exquisite visual palette.
The Old Oak
Another potent Ken Loach-Paul Laverty collaboration.
All to Play For, No Love Lost, Toni | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024
Three films that are—coincidentally, but fortuitously—mature studies of single parents trying their best to raise children in often discordant circumstances.