Written & Directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, from the novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Produced by Shrikant Mohta & Mahendra Soni Released by IABA LLC Bengali with English subtitles India. 148 min. Not rated With Dev Akhikari, Gerard Rudolf, Martin Cito Otto, Nabeel Khan, Paul Ditchfield & David James Chander Pahar (Mountain of the Moon) is an […]
Directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross Written by Ekvtimishvili Released by Big World Pictures Georgian with English subtitles Georgia/Germany/France. 102 min. Not rated With Lika Babluani & Mariam Bokeria With Generation X getting older, there has been an increase in coming-of-age films and television series taking place in the late 1980s/early ’90s. From Stephen […]
Directed by Bruce Ramsay Canada. 87 min. Not rated Hamlet, Shakespeare’s longest play, runs more than four hours when left uncut. One would therefore expect that in a 90-minute adaptation there wouldn’t be a minute to spare. However, Bruce Ramsay, the star and director, has managed to find plenty of time to waste. To begin […]
Directed by Felix van Groeningen Produced by Dirk Impens Written by Carl Joos & van Groeningen, based on the play by Johan Heldenbergh & Mieke Dobbels Released by Tribeca Film Flemish with English subtitles Belgium/Netherlands. 110 min. Not rated With Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh & Nell Cattrysse Taking place at different moments in the shared […]
By July, it was clear that there were already more than a half-dozen films that could securely claim a spot on a 10 best list. Overall, it was very good year, offering almost something for everyone, and with plenty of notable films hovering below the cut (the austere Paradise trilogy, the awards favorite 12 Years […]
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 & […]