The Old Oak
By Kevin Filipski April 3, 2024
Another potent Ken Loach-Paul Laverty collaboration.
Within the wide and varied films at the festival, many of the Hispanic cinema offerings stand out.
The novelty of a movie aimed at a typical anglophile audience with uptight British people swearing and reading vulgar words eventually wears thin.
Alice Rohrwacher’s latest film casts a beguiling spell, but like all altered states, it can also leave you disoriented.
Most of the 21 films on this year’s lineup rely on stories that center around the various ways we connect with others.
Director Matteo Garrone is scrupulous in his attention to the harrowing logistics of a Senegalese immigrant’s journey to Italy.
One could argue that the festival couldn’t occur at a better time, when French films are enjoying success in the U.S. this year.
Three films that are—coincidentally, but fortuitously—mature studies of single parents trying their best to raise children in often discordant circumstances.