Passing | New York Film Festival 2021
By Rania Richardson October 25, 2021
The elegant directorial debut of British-American actress Rebecca Hall revolves around two light-skinned Black women following different paths.
The elegant directorial debut of British-American actress Rebecca Hall revolves around two light-skinned Black women following different paths.
Simon Rex’s performance is one of the most gratifying surprises of the year.
In this captivating sequel, we are treated again to actress Honor Swinton Byrne as British film student Julie and her mother, Tilda Swinton, playing her onscreen mother.
The New Yorker hailed Ferrante’s slender yet loaded novel as “a brutally frank novel of maternal ambivalence.” The same could be said of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation.
In his visually dazzling and exhilarating new film, Wes Anderson has concocted a buoyant bouillabaisse.
Jane Campion performs a seductive sleight of hand in her adaptation of American writer Thomas Savage’s 1967 shapeshifting novel.
A creative couple explores artistry and love in this whimsical adventure and beguiling fantasy.
One thing for sure, when watching the blood-splattered and blunt Titane, you never know where it’s heading. It plays by its own rules.
The award for the most intriguing one-off at the festival goes to this story of demonic possession and romance, mixed with devilishly dark satire.