Unrest: Cyril Schäublin

Unrest Cyril Schäublin, 2022, Switzerland, 93m Swiss German, Russian and French with English subtitles U.S. Premiere A KimStim release.     Share this:

Triangle of Sadness: Ruben Östlund

Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund, 2022, Sweden/France/UK/Turkey/Germany, 147m Cinematic mischief maker Ruben Östlund liberally applies his customary playfulness to the wide canvas of his wildly ambitious, frequently hilarious latest film, which won the Swedish director his second Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Kicking off as a satirical romance, following the bickering, money-soured […]

Stonewalling: Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka,

Stonewalling Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka, Japan, 148m Hunanese with English subtitles U.S. Premiere For more than a decade, Beijing-based wife-and-husband team Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka have been making films about the lives of young people in China—in many cases “left-behind children,” or those whose parents are forced to leave their families to find jobs […]

Stars at Noon: Claire Denis

Stars at Noon Claire Denis, 2022, France, 137m English and Spanish with English subtitles North American Premiere A dissolute young American journalist (Margaret Qualley) and an English businessman (Joe Alwyn) with ties to the oil industry meet by chance while on different, mysterious assignments in modern-day Nicaragua. The two tumble into a whirlwind romance despite […]

Showing Up: Kelly Reichardt (Cannes; NYFF 2022)

Showing Up Kelly Reichardt, 2022, U.S., 108m North American Premiere Continuing one of the richest collaborations in modern American cinema, director Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women) reunites with star Michelle Williams for this marvelously particularized portrait of a sculptor’s daily work and frustrations in an artists’ enclave in Portland. Lizzy (Williams) struggles to put the finishing […]