Writer-director Felipe Gálvez emerges as a startling new voice in Latin American cinema with this searing revisionist western. Capturing majestic landscapes with a painterly eye, Chile’s official Oscar® entry is a singularly immersive reckoning with national myth-making and its attendant violence.
Drawing its idiosyncratic power from the wellsprings of legend, this ecstatic folktale travels from 19th-century Italy to Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego. A primal meditation on the potency of storytelling, The Tale of King Crab is a redemptive fable charged with mythic grandeur and elemental beauty.
This unique documentary, shot in the mountains outside Rome, explores the true legend of a local hermit. A probing look at loneliness and eccentricity that is at once beautiful, curious, and revealing. In Il solengo, an unusual subject is portrayed through an inspired form.