Director Charlotte Wells has struck gold with her young discovery, Frankie Corio, who delivered one of the best and most lived-in performances in the festival’s entire lineup.
Childhood is a time when boundaries are set and tested. As such, the line between kindness and cruelty can be especially hazy. René Clément’s Forbidden Games (1952) dramatizes two children’s fascination with death, which leads them to kill an animal; Richard Hughes’s brilliant novel A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) views a group of children […]
Few movies can be as topical right now as Happening. It plunges us back to the rotten old days when there were almost zero options out of an unwanted pregnancy.
Part of the movie’s punch can be chalked up to the sheer audacity of its titular character: a monster of self-absorption, flighty, rude, and prone to oversharing and interrupting.
This fierce drama follows in the footsteps of other recent Ukrainian films examining the effect of war in the Donbass region.
An absorbing documentary about how one of the most popular Broadway musicals was transformed into a hit movie.
A moving snapshot of life in Ukraine’s volatile Donbass region.
A gay love story set on an air force base in 1970s Estonia.
