Film-Forward

Foreign

Wicked Little Letters

The novelty of a movie aimed at a typical anglophile audience with uptight British people swearing and reading vulgar words eventually wears thin.

Karaoke

A gregarious new neighbor upends the lives of two retired empty nesters.

La Chimera

Alice Rohrwacher’s latest film casts a beguiling spell, but like all altered states, it can also leave you disoriented.

Àma Gloria/The Rapture/Sisterhood/Auction | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

Most of the 21 films on this year’s lineup rely on stories that center around the various ways we connect with others.

Io Capitano

Director Matteo Garrone is scrupulous in his attention to the harrowing logistics of a Senegalese immigrant’s journey to Italy.

Banel & Adam, Just the Two of Us, Red Island | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

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.

All to Play For, No Love Lost, Toni | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

Three films that are—coincidentally, but fortuitously—mature studies of single parents trying their best to raise children in often discordant circumstances.

Here

Film critics Pollyanna Positive and Negative Nancy took in Belgian director Bas Devos’s Here and came away with very different views of the movie.

Perfect Days

The work of an artist with nothing to prove, with a hand at the wheel so sure you don’t even notice it.