One Fine Morning: Mia Hansen-Løve (Cannes; NYFF 2022)

Hansen-Løve’s intensely poignant and deeply personal latest drama stars Léa Seydoux as Sandra, a professional translator and single mother at a crossroads.

Novelist’s Film, The: South Korea’s Hong Sangsoo (Venice; NYFF 2022)

For his playful and thought-provoking 27th feature, Hong Sangsoo takes on the perspective of a prickly middle-aged novelist, Junhee (Lee Hyeyoung, the magnetic star of Hong’s In Front of Your Face).

EO: Jerzy Skolimowski’s Tale of a Donkey (Cannes; NYFF 2022)

EO Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022, Poland/Italy, 86m At age 84, legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski (The Deep End, Moonlighting) has directed one of his spryest, most visually inventive films, following the travels of a peripatetic donkey named EO. After being removed from the only life he’s ever known in a traveling circus, EO begins a journey across […]

Descendant: Margaret Brown (NYFF 2022)

Descendant Margaret Brown, 2022, U.S., 109m In 1860, decades after the U.S. banned the practice of kidnapping and importing humans for enslavement, yet five years before the 13th amendment emancipated the nation’s already enslaved people, a ship named the Clotilda docked in Mobile, Alabama. There, it unloaded more than one hundred African souls before it was […]

Woman of Affairs, A (1928): Censored Garbo Movie–Critical Status

A sensational array of screen names, and the intriguing nature of the story (The Green Hat) from which it was made, together with some magnificence in the acting by Greta Garbo, by long odds the best thing she has ever done…..