Passages | Sundance 2023
By Kent Turner February 1, 2023
In Ira Sachs’s brusquely told new film, the libido-led story line supported one of the festival’s best films.
In Ira Sachs’s brusquely told new film, the libido-led story line supported one of the festival’s best films.
Obviously improvised by its adult cast members to the point of repetition, the flabby film rambles on, like an uninspired Saturday Night Live sketch.
Plenty of films at the festival will be readily available in the next several months, such as these three.
There is still life in the kids-in-competition documentary mini-genre, here focusing on the prestigious 2021 International Chopin Piano Prize.
You don’t have to be an ardent fan of Steven Spielberg to enter his semiautobiographical bildungsroman, set in 1950s/’60s suburbia, though it wouldn’t hurt.
Why did the surge of Black-centered films from the late 1960s through the 1970s fade away?
There were a lot of discoveries among the titles presented in the festival’s 60th edition that should not be missed when they are officially released.
A nature documentary that finds beauty within the debris of New Delhi as two brothers rescue injured black kites.
Elegance Bratton’s semi-autobiographical feature debut was the festival’s Closing Night selection.