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.
Last year’s Golden Bear winner is a documentary about a facility where the mentally ill can pursue a variety of artistic and artisanal activities.
Alice Rohrwacher’s latest film casts a beguiling spell, but like all altered states, it can also leave you disoriented.
Director Jessica Hausner’s baleful satire is animated by deadpan mockery of upper-middle-class Euro groupthink.
An accidental film that is moving, maddening, multifaceted in the questions it poses, and of significant depth.
What the documentary about the actor’s career gets right is Wilder’s love of life itself.