Vicky Krieps gives a magisterial, totally committed performance in a a remarkable, singular character study. Rarely has a performer conveyed painful sorrow in such a restrained but forceful manner.
These three films, all currently available on streaming services, have won acclaim over the last six months and should be added to viewers’ watch lists—if they haven’t already.
François Ozon’s film feels like a lighter version of its source material, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, less Jean Genet and more Noël Coward.
A fine and engaging dark comedy of the lying and hypocrisy of the business world.
This clever, surprisingly grounded fantasy-drama takes the concept of the genie-in-the-bottle story as a cautionary tale and turns it on its head.
A slow burn of a film that does not spoon-feed its audience as it challenges the notion of traditional masculinity.
Three minutes of film preserve the entire memory of the Jewish Quarter in Nasielsk, Poland: The vast majority of its residents were killed in the Holocaust.
A potent and incisive snapshot of a place and a people who, up until now, haven’t necessarily had much of a chance to tell their own stories on film.
An act of kindness gets a good Samaritan chained naked to the wall in a pigsty.