A Radiant Girl
By Caroline Ely February 17, 2023
Teen romance and the looming Holocaust make for bizarre bedfellows in actor Sandrine Kiberlain’s debut directorial feature.
Teen romance and the looming Holocaust make for bizarre bedfellows in actor Sandrine Kiberlain’s debut directorial feature.
This year’s Israeli Oscar submission is directed in an effortlessly authentic faux-documentary style, so much so that it often feels like the real thing.
To Gaspar Noé’s credit, this edit does not feel more conventional than its predecessor. It is, however, revealing to watch, and not for reasons Noé intends.
A droll comedy/drama of an Arab village in Israel stuck in limbo.
The film nimbly becomes a thriller without shedding its established rhythm. Before you know it, the tone has turned uncomfortably ominous.
The austere setting of the Icelandic tundra gives Godland the visual trappings of a man vs. nature story. However, it is more complex than that.
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.