Directed by Jacques Audiard Written by Audiard & Thomas Bidegain, based on the short-story collection Rust and Bone by Craig Davidson Released by Sony Pictures Classics French with English subtitles. France. 120 min. Rated R With Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners & Jean-Michel Correia On first sight, the […]
Directed by Joe Wright Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster Written by Tom Stoppard, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy Released by Focus Features UK. 130 min. Rated R With Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Alicia Vikander, Olivia Williams, Emily Watson & […]
Written & Directed by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Produced by Liran Atzmor Released by Cinema Guild Israel. 101 min. Not Rated In Hebrew with English subtitles Punctuated with pungent visual and narrative footnotes, The Law in These Parts comes close to being the Pentagon Papers of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz incisively […]
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel Produced by Louise Vesth, Sisse Graum Jorgensen & Meta Foldager Written by Rasmus Heisterberg & Arcel Released by Magnolia Pictures. Danish with English subtitles Denmark. 137 min. Rated R With Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander, Mikkel Boe Folsgaard & David Dencik Nikolaj Arcel, having co-written the first film version of The Girl […]
Edited, Written & Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée Produced by Pierre Even & Marie-Claude Poulin Released by Adopt Films French with English subtitles Canada/France. 120 min. Not rated With Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Évelyne Brochu, Marin Gerrier & Alice Dubois Directed and written by Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée (whose last film was the enchanting […]
Directed by Ursula Meier Produced by Denis Freyd & Ruth Waldburger Written by Antoine Jaccoud & Meier with the collaboration of Gilles Taurand Released by Adopt Films French with English subtitles France/Switzerland. 97 min. Not rated With Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston & Gillian Anderson Switzerland’s submission for the best foreign-language Oscar, Sister […]
Directed by Lorraine Lévy Produced by Virginie Lacombe & Raphael Berdugo Written by Nathalie Saugeon, Lévy & Noam Fitoussi Released by Cohen Media Group France. 105 min. Rated PG-13 English, French, Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles With Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi, Areen Omari, Khalifa Natour, Mahmood Shalabi & Bruno Podalydès […]
Directed by Luis Prieto Produced by Christopher Simon, Felix Vossen & Ruper Preston Written by Matthew Read, from the original screenplay Pusher by Nicolas Winding Refn Released by Radius TWC UK. 87 min. Rated R With Richard Coyle, Agyness Deyn, Bronson Webb & Zlatko Buric Frank (Richard Coyle) is too thoughtful, and maybe too fallible, […]
Directed & Produced by Sonia Nassery Cole Written by Cole & David Michael O’Neill Released by SnagFilms Afghanistan/USA. 116 min. Not rated In English, Pashtu & Dari with English subtitles With Cole, Haji Gul Aser, Walid Amini, Somaia Razaye, Hosna Tanha, Karim Jaweed, Sadaf Yarmal, Basir Mujaheed, Shafi Sahel, Jack Scalia and Edoardo Costa Afghanistan’s […]