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“Shoplifters,” directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, showcases...
“Parthenope” is an Italian film that follows its titular character (Celeste Dalla Porta) through a series of encounters in Naples, Italy. Spanning her life from ages 18 to 73, the film is less...
“I’m Still Here” is a Portuguese-language film that tells the story of a tight-knit family as they attempt to survive under the rule of Brazil’s 1970s military dictatorship. The family lives...
By Luke McMahan, Guide Columnist
• December 4, 2024
In 1970, Med Hondo, a Mauritanian-born French filmmaker renowned for his radical productions, released “Soleil O,” which seems to echo the sentiments of Frantz Fanon’s 1952 book “Black Skin, White...
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“Pain and Glory” presents an uncompromising look at the trials and tribulations of the life of a Spanish filmmaker in cinematic legend Pedro Almodóvar’s latest release. Salvador...
★★★★★
Films about World War II typically deal with similar stories, similar types of characters or similar types of narrative voices. As a subject of film, war has always been wildly popular,...
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The foreign film “Wild Tales” certainly lives up to its name. Technically, it is a collection of six short films that all share the common theme of vengeance and violence. Directed...
Poland, 1962. Winter. Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) is preparing to take her vows at the austere convent out in the countryside where she has lived since infancy. The Mother Superior calls her in for a meeting:...
Communication. Fate. Kinship. Moral responsibility. Such topics may seem better suited to your next philosophy class than to a movie, yet they happen to be central to one of the greatest films of the 1990s...
Quebeçois director Denis Villenueve crafts a dark and complex narrative in his 2010 film Incendies, adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play "Scorched." The film earned a Best Foreign Language Film nomination...
