Written and Directed by Anna Muylaert Produced by Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane, Debora Ivanov, and Muylaert Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories Portuguese with English subtitles Brazil. 112 min. Rated R With Regina Casé, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles, Michel Joelsas, Lourenço Mutarelli, and Helena Albergaria It’s hard to get good help, right? If so, a posh São […]
Written and Directed by Pat Mills Produced by Mike MacMillan and Alyson Richards Released by Strand Releasing Canada. 80 min. Not rated With Pat Mills, Zahra Bentham, Tracey Hoyt, Kevin Hanchard, Alex Ozerov, and Eleanor Zichy Guidance, a new comedy about a depressed ex-child actor posing as a high school guidance counselor, is the directorial […]
Written and Directed by Arne Birkenstock Produced by Birkenstock, Helmut G. Weber, Thomas Springer & Edward MacLiam Released by KimStim German with English subtitles Germany. 93 min. Not rated Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery is more straightforward than earlier explorations of skullduggery in the art market, from Harry Moses’s Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? […]
It was only the third day of the Cannes Film Festival when Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips rightfully predicted that the first feature film by Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes would win a top jury award. He wasn’t exactly sticking his neck out. Even if the official competition’s lineup were strong this year, and it wasn’t […]
John C. Reilly was a triple threat at Cannes, costarring in Lobster and sharing screen time with Salma Hayek in Tale of Tales, two films in the competition. He also popped out of nowhere in a cameo in Thomas Bidegain’s debut, the French-language Les Cowboys, one of the most ambitious films in the entire festival. […]
Directed by Daniel Wolfe Produced by Hayley Williams and Michael Elliott Written by Daniel and Matthew Wolfe Released by Oscillosocpe Laboratories UK. 111 min. Not rated Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, Conor McCarron, Ali Ahmad, Barry Nunney, Gary Lewis, and Wasim Zakir Teenager Laila’s world is candy colored. Her hair is dyed blond and bubblegum pink, her […]
Written and Directed by Nadav Lapid Produced by Carole Scotta, Osnat Handelsman-Keren and Talia Kleinhendler Released by Kino Lorber Hebrew with English subtitles Israel. 119 min. Not Rated With Sarit Larry, Avi Shnaidman, Lior Raz, Ester Rada, Guy Oren, Yehezkel Lazarov, and Dan Toren The Kindergarten Teacher poses fascinating and unsettling questions about the arts […]
Written and Directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, based on the novel Samba pour la France by Delphine Coulin Produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun Released by Broad Green Pictures French with Arabic and Serbian dialogue with English subtitles France. 119 min. Rated R With Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Izia […]
Written and Directed by Zaza Urushadze Produced by Urushadze and Ivo Felt DVD released by First Run Features Estonian and Russian with English subtitles Estonia/Republic of Georgia. 89 min. Not rated. With Lembit Ulfsak, Mikheil Meskhi, Giorgi Nakhashidze, Elmo Nüganen, and Raivo Trass In 1992, during the war between Georgia and the breakaway region of […]