Starring a sensational Sandra Hüller as a German novelist on trial for the murder of her husband, French director Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is grippingly rich in text and subtext.
Cannes Film Fest 2023: Best Films–“The Breaking Ice” by Anthony Chen
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The location of Anthony Chen’s intimate film, The Breaking Ice, the icy Chinese city of Yanji near the North Korean border, offers insights into the circumstances of its protagonists lives, which are suspended as if frozen in place.
Cannes Film Fest 2023: Best Films–Wim Wenders’ Anselm
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Wim Wenders’ latest 3D documentary, Anselm, offers a fascinating chronicle of German painter-sculptor Anselm Kiefer’s deeply tactile, maximalist oeuvre.
Cannes Film Fest 2016: Midnight and Special Screenings–
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MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS: “Gimme Danger” (Jim Jarmusch), “Train to Busan” (Yeon Sang-ho).
Monster: Kore-eda Hirokazu (Cannes Film Fest 2023)
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Like Rashomon, several of Kore-eda Hirokazu’s films use different perspectives to get to one truth. In Monster, a boy (Soya Kurokawa) complaints that a teacher has struck him and bullied him, and his mother (Sakura Ando) presses for answers, which are not readily easy to find. Ando is outstanding, as is Hinata Hiiragi as the […]
