The Dead Don’t Hurt
Vicky Krieps’s masterly performance carries this flawed but compelling character study masquerading as a western.
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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.
The Promised Land
A cinematic soap opera of the highest order.
Driving Madeleine
As the title character, Line Renaud is a true force of nature.