Film-Forward

Foreign

Io Capitano

Director Matteo Garrone is scrupulous in his attention to the harrowing logistics of a Senegalese immigrant’s journey to Italy.

Banel & Adam, Just the Two of Us, Red Island | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

One could argue that the festival couldn’t occur at a better time, when French films are enjoying success in the U.S. this year.

All to Play For, No Love Lost, Toni | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

Three films that are—coincidentally, but fortuitously—mature studies of single parents trying their best to raise children in often discordant circumstances.

Here

Film critics Pollyanna Positive and Negative Nancy took in Belgian director Bas Devos’s Here and came away with very different views of the movie.

Perfect Days

The work of an artist with nothing to prove, with a hand at the wheel so sure you don’t even notice it.

Driving Madeleine

As the title character, Line Renaud is a true force of nature.

The Crime Is Mine

A charming, effervescent, and smart addition to François Ozon’s always fast-moving, fast-changing body of work.

The Taste of Things

Food porn is much better when seen on a big screen, filmed by world-class directors. Case in point: the culinary eroticism in Tran Anh Hung’s latest film.

Monster

A film of tremendous unease that adults experience on behalf of children and children experience between themselves.