I always love when a film treats children as adults and refrains from presuming with an adult’s supposedly superior knowledge that there is little of importance to kids. Romain Goupil’s beautifully
“Brute!” exclaims wife Danielle Darrieux, fainting; “Comédienne!” accuses husband François Périer, lowering his pulled punch. So goes the first—and finest—10 minutes of Marcel L’Herbier’s Au petite
The veritable circus of Bucharest society that swirled around and defined Cristi Puiu’s last film, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, a study of a man dying, is practically absent from his latest, Aurora, a
First, a reminder of what we thought we knew about the films screening in Cannes this year, the entries announcing the lineups: The Official Selection and Cannes Classics; Directors' Fortnight and Critics
Cargo co-editor Ekkehard Knörer has been doing such a bang-up job rounding up reviews in German and English, plus one French tweet — he's even adding links to each of the Letras de Cine grades — that any
"Essentially supersizing Nowhere (1997) and relocating it from high school to college, [Gregg Araki's Kaboom] spins an insanely complicated narrative of sex, drugs, dreams, webchats, self-fellating
Mike D'Angelo at the AV Club: "To say that Xavier Dolan's sophomore effort lives up to expectations won't mean much to most of you, since his terrific debut, I Killed My Mother, which swept the
New York's Logan Hill notes that Charles Ferguson's "rip-snorting, indignant documentary" Inside Job opens with a shot of the NYC skyline that's "almost identical" to another in Oliver Stone's
Above: Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light. Aurora (Cristi Puiu, Romania) This film is so long it deserves two notes: (1) If you are watching an ostensibly realist film (as we understand the
Often I get the sense that serious movies are the rarest kind of them all. I don’t mean the easily self-serious and pretentious films, films closed to mockery through riskless gravity. The most serious
"Hideo Nakata's laughably dated Chatroom finds a quintet of annoying British teens, including Kick-Ass' Aaron Johnson, gathering in virtual reality to humiliate and abuse one another from the comfort
"Is this Romania's year at Cannes again, as it was in 2007?" asks Ben Kenigsberg in Time Out Chicago. Aurora is "the long-awaited new film from Cristi Puiu, the director of The Death of Mr Lazarescu