Written and Directed by Roy Andersson Produced by Pernilla Sandstrom Released by Magnolia Pictures Swedish with English subtitles. Sweden, Norway, France, Germany. 100 min. Not rated With Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Charlotta Larsson, Viktor Gyllenberg, Lotti Tornros, and Jonas Gerholm “Hahahaha!” That’s the sound of a loathsome toy called “bag in laughs,” a periodic sinister […]
Directed by André Téchiné Written by Téchiné, Jean-Charles Le Roux, and Cédric Anger Produced by Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier Released by Cohen Media Group French with English subtitles France. 116 min. Rated R With Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet, and Adèle Haenel A mild-mannered lawyer attaches himself to a wealthy casino matriarch. He wins the […]
Written and Directed by John Maclean Produced by Rachel Gardner, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Conor McCaughan Released by A24 UK/New Zealand. 91 min. Rated R With Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, and Rory McCann The feature debut of former Beta Band member John MacLean is an arty little Western that has […]
Written and Directed by Cédric Jimenez Produced by Alain Goldman Released by Drafthouse Films French with English subtitles France. 135 min. Rated R With Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette, and Benoît Magimel The Connection, a ’70s-era crime-thriller, opens with a bike chase sequence along the coastal highway of Marseille. From the start, director Cédric […]
Written and Directed by Gerard Johnson Produced by Stephen Woolley, Joanna Laurie and Elizabeth Karlsen Released by Tribeca Film UK. 112 min. Not rated With Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell, Tony Pitts, Gordon Brown, Richard Dormer, Elisa Lasowski, MyAnna Buring, Orli Shuka, and Gjevat Kelmendi Days making backroom deals and coke-fueled, brawl-filled nights are […]
Written and Directed by David Oelhoffen, based on “The Guest,” a short story by Albert Camus Produced by Marc du Pontavice and Matthew Gledhill Released by Tribeca Film French, Arabic, and Spanish with English subtitles France. 110 min. Not rated With Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Vincent Martin, and Djemel Barek Loosely based on a short […]
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Produced by Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich Written by David Nicholls, based on the novel by Thomas Hardy Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures UK/USA. 120 min. Rated PG-13 With Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple, and Jessica Barden Wow, Carey Mulligan, why are you making those faces […]
Directed by Toa Fraser Produced by Matthew Metcalfe and Glenn Standring. Written by Glenn Standring Released by Magnet Releasing Maori with English subtitles New Zealand. 107 min Rated R With James Rolleston, Lawrence Makoare, and Te Kohe Tuhaka In terms of plot and emotional development, this brutal coming-of-age film is essentially as clichéd as any […]
Directed by Maxime Giroux Producers: Nancy Grant and Sylvain Corbeil Written by Alexandre Laferriere and Maxime Giroux Released by Oscilloscope Labs Canada. 106 min. Not rated With Hadas Yaron, Martin Dubreuil, and Luzer Twersky A young, married Hasidic mother (Fill the Void’s Hadas Yaron) is first noticed by thirtysomething Félix (Martin Dubreuil), while she’s waiting […]