Written & Directed by Daniel Auteuil, based on the work by Marcel Pagnol Produced by Alain Sarde & Jerome Seydoux Released by Kino Lorber French with English subtitles France. 110 min. Not rated With Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Nicolas Duvauchelle & Astrid Bergès-Frisbey In the world of French playwright-director-screenwriter Marcel Pagnol, […]
Written & Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari Produced by Maria Hatzakou, Yorgos Lanthimos, Iraklis Mavroidis, Tsangari & Angelos Venetis Released by Strand Releasing Greek with English subtitles Greece. 95 min. Not rated With Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou & Yorgos Lanthimos The official selection from Greece for this year’s foreign language film Academy Award, […]
Directed by Philippe Garrel Written by Garrel, Marc Cholodenko & Caroline Deruas-Garrel Produced by Edouard Weil, Conchita Airoldi, Giorgio Magliulo & Pierre-Alain Meier Released by Sundance Selects French with English subtitles France. 95 min. Not rated With Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Céline Sallette, Jérôme Robart, Vladislav Galard, Vincent Macaigne & Maurice Garrel A Burning Hot […]
Written & Directed by Sarah Polley Produced by Susan Cavan & Polley Released by Magnolia Pictures Canada. 116 min. Rated R With Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby & Sarah Silverman Take This Waltz is bathed in sunshine. In fact, almost every scene is shot in gorgeous sunlight. For a film that deals with some […]
Directed & Written by André Téchiné Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd Written by Mr. Téchiné, Mehdi Ben Attia & Philippe Djian, based on the novel Impardonnables by Djian Released by Strand Releasing French & Italian with English subtitles France. 110 min. Not rated With André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, Mélanie Thierry & Adriana Asti, Mauro Conte […]
Directed by Martin Sulik Produced by Rudolf Biermann & Sulík Written by Marek Lescak & Sulik Released by MK2 In Slovak & Romany with English subtitles Czech Republic/Slovakia. 107 min. Not rated With Janko Mizigar, Martin Hangurbadzo, Martinka Kotlarova, Miroslava Jarabekova, Miroslav Gulyas, Ivan Mirga & Attila Mokos There’s thieves and fights, music and dancing, […]
Written & Directed by Mathieu Demy Produced by Demy & Angeline Massoni Released by MPI Pictures English, French & Spanish with English subtitles France. 105 min. Not rated With Mathieu Demy, Salma Hayek, Geraldine Chaplin, Chiara Mastroianni, Carlos Bardem, Jean-Pierre Mocky & Sabine Mamou Two reasons make Americano noteworthy. One, it offers the meaty role […]
Written & Directed by Alice Rohrwacher Produced by Carlo Cresto-Dina, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin & Tiziana Soudani Released by Film Movement Italian with English subtitles Italy/France. 98 min. Not rated With Yle Vianello, Salvatore Cantaloupo, Pasqualina Scuncia & Anota Caprioli A startling debut film by writer-director Alice Rohrwacher, Corpo Celeste is a deeply insightful and […]
Directed by Julia Murat Produced by Taiga Films Written by Murat, Maria Clara Escobar & Felipe Sholl Released by Film Movement Portuguese with English subtitles Argentina/Brazil/France. 98 min. Not rated With Sonia Guedes, Lisa E. Fávero & Luiz Serra Although magic realism is famously known in Latin American literature through classic works by Jorge Luis […]