Shot on location in East Africa, this loose, classical adventure film, while narratively slight, is an immersive excursion into nature. Director Harry Watt, a documentarian (and apprentice of Robert Flaherty!), expresses the world with a rare sense of life. A forgotten oddity worthy of rediscovery.
It took Irish filmmaker Chris Kelly nine years to complete this unwavering survey of the Cambodian conflict, achieving unexpected universality with his focus on the power of activism in the face of corruption. We proudly present this raw portrait of the uprising of a nation with Human Rights Watch.
The first in “Men on a Mission,” our three-film series of thrillers by Hong Kong maestro Johnnie To that showcases tenacious determination of professions tested under extreme circumstances. It stars the late, great chanteur-acteur Johnny Hallyday as a man losing his memory yet hell bent on revenge.
Tras Purple Butterfly Lou Ye optó por una mayor franqueza en este romance, ambientado entre los estudiantes de Beijing durante los años 80. Con el primer desnudo completo en el cine chino además de una referencia abierta a la acción policial en la Plaza de Tiananmen, fue prohibida durante 5 años.
Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature film made outside his native Iran is this sumptuous, brain-teasing romance, as a deceptively simple relationship morphs into something more complex—and keeps the audience guessing. Juliette Binoche is radiant, vulnerable, and perfect in the lead role.
Pasamos al documental en la última obra de nuestra serie canadiense: el retrato profundamente humano de Hugh Gibson sobre los desafíos sociales en Toronto. Les da voz con intimidad y honestidad, ofreciendo una visión excepcional sobre la lucha para crear así nuevos caminos para esas vidas precarias.
With an enveloping lightness of touch, this anecdotal trip through Lyon is an unassuming yet complex portrait of a woman at a crossroads. Brimming with the observational beauty of a city symphony, Tavernier’s film is a warm reminder about the influence the most meaningful bonds have upon one’s life.
One of the most under-exposed directors who followed the New Wave generation, Jacques Doillon—whose Ponette we showed this spring—has a sophisticated style that deftly balances naturalism and profound psychological interiority. His characters seem to think and feel in ways rarely seen in the cinema.
Today we launch a four-city tour of city symphonies: documentaries dedicated to the personalities and energies of unique urban centers. This genre burst into being with Walter Ruttman’s ruminative portrait of Weimar-era Berlin, explored with a style influenced by Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov.
Our second highlight from the 71st Locarno Festival is an expansive, multi-genre exploration of colonialism that connects the past to today’s migrant crisis. Madmen’s Fort is a defiant, haunting look at History: an overwhelming examination of the politics of power versus the power of utopia.
Comenzamos la retrospectiva del director de la 6ª generación china: Lou Ye. Tras Suzhou River, inspirado por Wong Kar-wai, continuó con esta historia de amor de la época de la guerra de los años 30, que dobla y distorsiona el tiempo, la memoria, el trauma y el romance entre amantes separados.
Ken Loach teamed up with the great playwright David Mercer for this look at the pitfalls of psychiatry and institutionalization. Aside from this critique, at the center of the film rests a nuanced cast of complicated people trying to do the right thing—an essential film of 1970s British cinema.
With Locarno opening this week we’re showcasing two genre-bending films from the festival. First is Gürcan Keltek’s evocative documentary that unexpectedly connects cosmic chaos—a gobsmacking meteor shower—and the armed conflict between Turks and Kurds, finding resonances both political and poetic.
Descrita como una “pastoral digital” e influenciada por el cine de Kiyoshi Kurosawa y Raúl Ruiz, este rompecabezas hermenéutico nos devuelve a lo básico: nos cuestiona cómo debemos interpretar (sus) imágenes. Engañosamente ambiciosa y seductoramente estilizada, ésta juega con nuestras expectativas.
Tres mujeres se encuentran en distintos extremos dentro de una negociación política pero acaban por unirse bajo la experiencia compartida del sexismo en el trabajo. Chloé Robichaud explora este tema con una deslumbrante estructura conversacional, un tono sofisticado y un fuerte sentido del paisaje.
El sueco Johannes Nyholm nos cogió por sorpresa con este original debut en el que fusiona el realismo social con la fantasía, añadiendo un renovado espíritu Dogma a dicha mezcla. El resultado es curiosamente extraño, una rara fábula de un optimismo contagioso, que probablemente te conquistará.
We draw our series on François Ozon to a close with his break-out hit which re-introduced the world to the austere enchantment of actress Charlotte Rampling. A psychological mystery as gripping and elusive as Repulsion and The Vanishing, it remains one of the great arthouse films of the 2000s.
Working from an unproduced play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ozon made one of his most inventive films of his career with this 70s period piece. A synthesis of subversive genres: part musical, part sex farce, a little melodrama, Water Drops on Burning Rocks is a remarkably sardonic love story.
We continue our series highlighting the provocative early features of François Ozon with one of his most extreme tales. The lovers on the run genre mixes with fairy tales made in the era of Larry Clark’s Kids and Bully—yet starring Dardennes actor Jérémie Rénier!—and is by turns harsh and sexy.
In 1968’s Teorema, a man causes a bourgeois family to question every facet of themselves—in the provocative debut of François Ozon, whom we offer a four-film retrospective of, a pet rat (!) inspires a similar reevaluation amongst a French family. This satire is absurd as much as it’s unforgettable.
Ganadora del premio Bright Future en Rotterdam por su primer largometraje, la película de Sophie Goyette es el viaje a la deriva de tres almas caprichosas. Guiados por una calma envolvente, sus personajes e historias de indagación interior proporcionan toda una experiencia reconstituyente.
La siguiente obra en nuestra serie dedicada a los nuevos directores canadienses es la segunda película del aclamado Kazik Radwanski. El suyo es un cine observacional dedicado al patetismo y al humor propio del excéntrico forastero. El sujeto de su irónico escrutinio es Erwin, tan banal como único.
El emocionante debut de Daouda Coulibaly lleva la arquetípica historia de Scarface a las calles de Bamako, en Mali. Esta cautivadora historia se introduce en el mundo del crimen y el narcotráfico. Un mundo que se mantiene vivo no sólo por Coulibaly, sino también por la actuación de Ibrahim Koma.
Later finished by a new generation of filmmakers after a goldmine of footage was discovered from this turbulent time in American race relations, The Black Power Mixtape is a revelatory portrait of what should have been but a moment in history, yet this period has sadly not yet passed. Essential.
With Jean-Luc Godard’s restored & re-discovered The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company premiering on MUBI, we’re reviving another post-New Wave favorite. His only—and contentious—collaboration with Depardieu fractures Greek myth and detective tale to question love and spirit in our fallen world.
De costa a costa, una nueva generación de jóvenes directores está floreciendo en Canadá. Presentamos un programa de 10 películas que reúne las mejores obras de este movimiento independiente, contando con el premiado y emocional debut de Ashley McKenzie sobre dos amantes unidos por la misma adicción.
In May we lost one of the great Italian directors of all time, Ermanno Olmi. Best known for cinematic miracles such as Il Posto and The Tree of Wooden Clogs, we pay tribute to his humanist gaze with this deeply affecting moral parable, whose images boast an overwhelming spiritual resonance.
Long before Whiplash, Corneau explored a similar story of the musician Marin Marais and his tutelage by the cantankerous Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. The two are movingly played by the late Guillaume Depardieu and his father Gérard, who in tandem articulate a brilliant soul in this ode to creation.
We return to the versatile oeuvre of Alain Corneau with a high-tension thriller about a retired mobster (Montand!), his wife (Deneuve!), and a prison escapee (Depardieu!). The familiar story of a mobster returning for one last job is revised here with nuance, carving a film of rare unpredictability.
¿Qué tienen en común Rambo, John “Hannibal” Smith del Equipo A y el Coronel Kurtz de Apocalypse Now? Todos se inspiraron en Bo Gritz. Siniestro pero fascinante, este absorbente documental de Luka Zimmerman reflexiona sin temor sobre cuán arraigada está la guerra en el ADN de Estados Unidos.