Directed by Sally El Hosaini Produced by Gayle Griffiths, Julia Godzinskaya & Michael Sackler Written by El Hosaini & Aymen Hamdouchi Released by Paladin UK. 111 min. Not Rated With James Floyd, Fady Elsayed & Saïd Taghmaoui At the 2012 BFI London Film Festival, My Brother the Devil scooped Best British Newcomer Award for Welsh-Egyptian […]
Directed by Michel Gondry Produced by Gondry, Julie Fong, Raffi Adlan & Georges Bermann Written by Gondry, Jeffrey Grimshaw & Paul Proch Released by Paladin/108 Media UK/USA/France. 103 min. Not rated With Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Laidychen Carrasco, Raymond Delgado, Jonathan Ortiz, Jonathan Worrell, Alex Barrios, Meghan “Niomi” Murphy, Raymond Rios, Brandon Diaz, Manuel Rivera, […]
Directed by Matteo Garrone Produced by Domenico Procacci & Garrone Written by Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Garrone & Massimo Gaudioso, based on a story by Garrone & Gaudioso Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories Italian, with English subtitles Italy/France. 115 min. Not rated With Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone, Graziella Marina, Nello Iorio, Raffaele Ferrante & […]
As usual, the mid-winter Film Society of Lincoln Center mini-fest is strong in variety—an animated film here, a biopic there, some audience pleasing and others inscrutable—but it doesn’t necessarily represent the best of what France has to offer. Conspicuously missing in the lineup are the latest from star sourpuss Jean-Pierre Bacri in the droll rom-com […]
Written & Directed by Kim Nguyen Produced by Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin & Item 7 Released by Tribeca Film Canada. 90 min. Not rated French & Lingala with English subtitles With Rachel Mwanza, Serge Kanyinda, Alain Bastien, Mizinga Mwinga & Ralph Prosper Imagine a devastated world where starving children are brutally pitted against each other […]
Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai Produced by Xiaoshuai, Isabelle Glachant, Didar Domehri, Lü Dong, Laurent Baudens & Gaël Nouaille Written by Xiaoshuai & Lao Ni Released by First Run Features Shanghainese & Mandarin with English subtitles China/France. 115 min. Not rated With Liu Wenqing, Wang Jingchun & Yan Ni Director Wang Xiaoshuai’s autobiographical 11 Flowers turns […]
Film Comment Selects, now in its 13th edition, is a typically eclectic and wide-ranging selection of films chosen by the editors of Film Comment, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s magazine. Think of it as the rambunctious, unruly younger sibling of the New York Film Festival. With a program encompassing challenging art-house films, genre exercises, […]
Directed by Bavo Defurne Produced by Yves Verbraeken. Written by Defurne, Yves Verbraeken, based on the book Nooit gaat dit over by Andre Sollie Released by Strand Releasing Dutch with English subtitles Belgium. 96 min. Not rated With Jelle Florizoone, Eva Van Der Gucht, Mathias Vergels, Nina Marie Kortekaas, Katelijne Damen, Luk Wyns & Thomas […]
Directed & Written by Gaël Morel Produced by Paulo Branco Released by Breaking Glass Pictures French with English subtitles France. 97 min. Not rated With Stéphane Rideau, Dimitri Durdaine & Béatrice Dalle Blond and doe-eyed, Angelo (Dimitri Durdaine) is a teen prostitute whom other prostitutes pay to see naked. But being a pretty sex worker […]