Rise
By Caroline Ely June 2, 2023
In this kind-hearted and poignant film, director Cédric Klapisch puts his heroine through her paces as she faces new and unfamiliar music.
In this kind-hearted and poignant film, director Cédric Klapisch puts his heroine through her paces as she faces new and unfamiliar music.
A mystery that morphs from a fascinating procedural into a sadly damning portrayal of innate misogyny.
Director François Ozon pulls no punches chronicling the heart-wrenching attempts of two daughters to honor their elderly father’s directive: He wants to end his life on his own terms.
At once raw and highly stylized, Rodeo fires up a rebel-without-a-cause spirit that lets its woman warrior run free.
This frenetic and nerve-wracking movie makes the point that for many, it’s worse than a jungle out there.
In Ira Sachs’s brusquely told new film, the libido-led story line supported one of the festival’s best films.
A talky, heady, and metaphorical courtroom drama conceals depths of sadness beneath its intellectual and legalistic surface.
Director Dina Amer’s incisive and unsettling debut explores how a young French-Moroccan woman ended up becoming radicalized.
A moody movie for fans of Claire Denis’s more recent work, character studies with dense emotions to unpack.