Written and Directed by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz Produced by Marie Masmonteil, Sandrine Brauer, and Shlomi Elkabetz Released by Music Box Films Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles France/Israel/Germany. 115 min. Not Rated With Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Menashe Noy, Sasson Gabay, Eli Gorstein, and Gabi Amrani The struggle of modern women against conservative […]
With 41 French (co-)productions debuting at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the event has evolved into an important platform for the country’s film industry, offering premieres that outnumber French debuts at Cannes. Just as Toronto kicks off the awards season in North America, it also serves the same purpose for the French films. Many […]
Written and Directed by Uberto Pasolini Produced by Pasolini, Christopher Simon, and Felix Vossen Released by Tribeca Film UK/Italy. 93 min. Not rated With Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Karen Drury, and Andrew Buchan John May (Happy-Go-Lucky’s Eddie Marsan) has made a career of going to funerals. More specifically, he goes to the ones no one […]
Directed by Kevin Macdonald Produced by Charles Steel and Macdonald Written by Dennis Kelly Released by Focus Features UK/USA/Russia. 115 min. Rated R With Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Sergey Puskepalis, Michael Smiley, Grigory Dobrygin, Sergey Veksler, Sergey Kolesnikov, Bobby Schofield, Jodie Whittaker, and Tobias Menzies Who knew the world […]
Edited, Written, and Directed by Xavier Dolan Produced by Nancy Grant and Dolan Released by Roadside Attractions. French with English subtitles Canada. 139 min. Rated R With Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Patrick Huard, Alexandre Goyette, Michèle Lituac, Viviane Pacal and Nathalie Hamel-Roy In Xavier Dolan’s Cannes’ Jury Prize winner, Mommy, the overarching […]
Written and Directed by Peter Strickland Produced by Andy Starke Released by Sundance Selects UK. 106 min. Not rated With Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Eugenia Caruso, Zita Kraszko, Monica Swinn, Eszter Tompa, and Fatma Mohamed Isn’t it amazing how the most unique, unconventional relationships generally, when put under a microscope, turn out to be […]
Directed by Paolo Virzì Produced by Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, and Benedetto Habib Written by Francesco Bruni, Francesco Piccolo and Paolo Virzì, freely adapted from the novel by Stephen Amidon Released by Film Movement Italian with English subtitles Italy. 110. Not rated With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Matilde Gioli, Guglielmo […]
Written and Directed by Dominik Graf Produced by Uschi Reich Released by Music Box Films Germany/Austria. 170 min. Not Rated German with English subtitles With Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius, Maja Maranow and Andreas Pietschmann This beautiful historical drama passionately depicts how the political, social, and cultural revolutionary fervor sweeping late 18th-century Europe inspired […]
Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergey Melkumov Written by Oleg Negin and Zvyagintsev Released by Sony Pictures Classics Russian with English subtitles Russia. 142 min Rated R With Alexey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovitchenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Alexey Rozin, Sergey Pokhodaev How is it that, in the real world, the […]