The question about watching La Flor, one of the more exceptional films in recent South American cinema, shouldn’t be if but when.

Rojo intentionally mimics the look and grammar of cinema from the 1970s and looks amazingly retro, but it’s much more than a movie that emulates a certain way of filmmaking and storytelling.

After a rough beginning, what follows is a lovely character study of a lonely woman who hesitantly steps out into the world.

Part 19th-century family drama, part frontier epic, and all spellbindingly atmospheric.

Writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s highly observant film follows Sonia Braga in a tour de force performance.

Peter Matthiessen’s 1978 novel The Snow Leopard recounts his journey through the Himalayas with a team of Sherpas as guides. Among them was Tukten, for whom Matthiessen felt a particular reverence, often referring to him as a “shaman” for an unnamable, soulful quality, despite a tendency toward unreliability and pesky behavior. Tukten teaches one of […]

Talk about your tough sell. Critics have their work cut out for them when discussing well-made but audience-repelling films. For example, Room, centered on a mother and her five-year-old son kept captive in a shed for years on end, is one of the lowest grossing films to be nominated for the best picture Oscar. The Auschwitz-set Son of Saul has earned wide acclaim, but it […]

There’s no intelligible dialogue in this animated odyssey about a nameless boy who leaves his home in the countryside in search of his father, but it still manages to speak to the heart. The father has left for the city to find work, and his lonely son undertakes a dreamlike pursuit. Growing in sinister stature […]

It’s hard to imagine a more fascinating place on earth than Chile. If we had to pick one country to show an alien race what varying geographical features our planet has to offer, it would probably be that country. It has more than 4,000 kilometers of coastline and the highest volcano and part of the […]