Written & Directed by Asghar Farhadi Produced by Alexandre Mallet-Guy Released by Sony Pictures Classics. French & Persian with English subtitles. France/Italy. 130 min. Rated PG-13 With Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet, Elyes Aguis, Jeanne Jestin, Sabrina Ouazani, Babak Karmi & Valeria Cavalli The family portrayed in The Past certainly embodies Tolstoy’s […]
Written & Directed by Clio Barnard, inspired by the short story by Oscar Wilde Produced by Tracy O’Riordan Released by Sundance Selects UK. 93 min. Not rated With Connor Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder & Siobhan Finneran British director Clio Barnard’s career began as an artist/filmmaker, and her work in video was seen in galleries […]
Produced & Directed by Ulrich Seidl Written by Veronika Franz & Ulrich Seidl Released by Strand Releasing German with English subtitles Austria/Germany/France, 92 min. Not rated With Melanie Lenz, Joseph Lorenz & Verena Lehbauer Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise Trilogy was originally conceived as a single film of interwoven stories that follows three female family members on […]
Written & Directed by Alexandre de la Patellière & Matthieu Delaporte, based on their play Produced by Dimitri Rassam & Jérôme Seydoux Released by Under the Milky Way, now available on iTunes French with English subtitles French. 109 min. Not rated With Patrick Bruel, Valérie Benguigui, Charles Berling, Judith El Zein, Guillaume de Tonquédec & […]
Written, Directed, & Produced by Atsushi Funahashi Produced by Yoshiko Funahashi & Hashimoto. Released by First Run Features Release Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 96 min. Not rated Films that focus on the aftermath of a catastrophic disaster, be it natural, man-made or otherwise, tend to follow similar structures in their narratives. Blame is widely […]
Directed by Jonathan Gurfinkel Produced by Udi Yerushalmy Written by Rona Segal Released by Tribeca Film Hebrew with English subtitles Israel. 96 min. Not rated With Sivan Levy, Eviatar Mor, Roy Nik, Niv Zilberberg , Tal Grushka, Eran Ivanir & Ronit Yudkevich Some might argue that high school is the worst period in life—the raging […]
Written & Directed by Alicia Scherson, based on the novel Una Novelita Lumpen by Roberto Bolano Released by Strand Releasing English, Italian, Spanish with English subtitles Italy/Chile/Germany/Spain. 98 min. Not rated With Manuela Martelli, Luigi Ciardo, Alessandro Giallocosta, Nicolas Vaporidis & Rutger Hauer Alicia Scherson’s impressive piece third feature-length film centers around two teenage siblings, […]
Directed by Stephen Frears Produced by Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan & Tracey Seaward Written by Coogan & Jeff Pope, based on Martin Sixsmith’s book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee Released by the Weinstein Company UK/USA/France. 98 min. Rated PG-13 With Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham, Barbara Jefford, Ruth McCabe & […]
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche Written by Kechiche & Ghalya Lacroix, adapted from Le Bleu Est une Couleur Chaude by Julie Maroh Produced by Alcatraz Films, Olivier Thery Lapiney & Laurence Clerc Released by Sundance Selects. French with English subtitles France. 179 min. Rated NC-17 With Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Mona Walravens, Jérémie Laheurte […]