The series includes the latest by the prodigious Olivier Assayas, Denis Podalydès as Inspector Jules Maigret, and Charlotte Rampling, whose arch stares can turn you into stone.
A woman’s plunge off a pedestrian bridge into the currents of the Rhône sets off a phobia of water in this elegant festival discovery.
The Revivals section included the blueprint of the genre-blending masala movie presented in the original director’s cut, once censored and unseen for decades.
Three hidden gems and undistributed films that deserve attention.
There could possibly be no more fitting option to end the 63rd New York Film Festival than with the selection of a New York–set romantic comedy with gravitas.
A bold and remarkably assured feature directorial debut plays out mostly like a fizzy—albeit sexually explicit—romantic comedy, with deep dramatic undertones.
Another in Kelly Reichardt’s canon of deceptively modest stories of ordinary people set within a specific place and time.
Director Park Chan-wook takes as his blueprint Donald E Westlake’s lean and mean bloodbath The Ax (1997) and makes the macabre and cynical tale his own.
With a sly undercurrent of darkness, Jay Kelly is more bitter than sweet. It’s far richer and more complex than you might expect.