Com o lançamento de seu filme mais recente, Os Cinco Diabos, vamos relembrar a estreia encantadora de Léa Mysius: uma análise da sexualidade feminina e dos medos da adolescência com cores arrebatadoras, humor extravagante e a melancolia onírica de um verão transformador. Bônus: a trilha sonora!
Objetos surrealistas preparam o palco e animais se enrolam e deslizam sobre ele no conto de fadas monocromático e sombrio de Nina Menkes. Entorpecida com sexo sem amor e guerras sem sentido, a crupiê saturnina de Marina Shoif abandona as chamadas à terra e levita em direção ao éter para se libertar.
Iluminada por mensagens de texto, transmissões ao vivo e perfis de aplicativos de namoro, esta relíquia de Eugene Kotlyarenko habita os ritmos do tédio milenar com grande perspicácia. Com Dasha Nekrasova de Red Scare, A Casa Dividida mantém um equilíbrio delicado entre ironia e sinceridade.
Entirely comprised of surveillance videos, Joële Walinga’s mold-breaking documentary emphasizes the omnipresence of cameras in modern life. Though produced under unnatural conditions, the found footage, which moves with the rhythm of seasonal changes, also paints an arresting portrait of humanity.
Barbet Schroeder doesn’t shy away from controversial subjects, be they the barbarous dictator Idi Amin or fundamentalist monk Ashin Wirathu. This remarkably open-minded portrait of the problematic lawyer and anticolonial activist Jacques Vergès questions why someone would defend the indefensible.
Kirsten Dunst won Best Actress at Cannes for this thunderous masterwork about the catatonic effects of depression. It was perhaps inevitable that Lars von Trier’s cinema of suffering would culminate in the total annihilation of humankind. Still, the end of the world has never looked more beautiful.
Willem Dafoe followed his Best Actor prize at Venice with an Oscar® nomination for his magnificent performance as Vincent van Gogh in this impressionistic biopic. Beautifully directed by Julian Schnabel, At Eternity’s Gate is an immersive portrait, not just of the artist, but his singular worldview.
Casting her spellbinding sister as an officer investigating a murder, Nina Menkes journeys into a sandstorm of military and sexual violence. Refusing resolution, this fascinating film excavates an atmosphere of haunting that is aswirl with dreamlike imagery and mesmeric incantation.
Taking to Paris for the first time, Georgian director Otar Iosseliani bottles the cheek and clamor of the crowd and shakes it up to create a rowdy city symphony reminiscent of Jacques Tati. Overflowing with curiosities, this full-of-life film also features a young Mathieu Amalric as an art thief!
Interpretando versões fictícias de si mesmos, o diretor Eugene Kotlyarenko e a queridinha do cinema indie Kate Lyn Sheil socializam com esquisitões nesta comédia improvisada sobre o fim de uma relação. Bombardeado com as distrações da vida em Los Angeles, o amor moderno é mais frágil do que nunca.
The most provocative entry in Akio Jissôji’s “Buddhist Trilogy,” this experimental masterwork is a bracing examination of religious fanaticism. Stylistically radical and erotically charged, Mandala is a deeply philosophical, taboo-busting inquiry into man’s primal capacity for good and evil.
Broodingly atmospheric and replete with sharply-manoeuvred twists, this noir-inflected thriller examines the machinations of the East German regime in forensic detail. Winner of the Best International Feature Oscar®, The Lives of Others lucidly evokes the insidious terror of the surveillance state.
Stylistically ravishing and unabashedly perverse, this wickedly entertaining psychosexual thriller finds Brian De Palma at the peak of his reflexive powers. Channelling Vertigo and Rear Window, Body Double might be the ultimate Hitchcock homage, but its virtuosity belongs entirely to De Palma.
Doppelgängers and double-crosses abound in director Brian De Palma and screenwriter Paul Schrader’s dazzling tribute to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Featuring a magnificent score from Bernard Herrmann, Obsession is a deliriously melodramatic high-tension thriller from the master of the macabre.
Awash with striking imagery, Nina Menkes’s indelible portrait of alienated womanhood counters the glitz of nocturnal Las Vegas with its daytime loneliness. Sullenly glamorous, the blood-red claws sported by Tinka Menkes’s croupier evokes a gesture of resistance against the drudgery of casino life.
Como Agnès Varda e Věra Chytilová, Ula Stöckl viu muitas possibilidades nos anos 1960 e se tornou uma das primeiras diretoras feministas na Alemanha Ocidental. Em seu filme divertido e polifônico sobre um quinteto de mulheres recém-independentes, a feminilidade moderna é uma melodia contagiante.
Um exemplo perfeito de cinema “desktop”, a louca viagem de Eugene Kotlyarenko pelo mundo cibernético representa os contratempos da indolência com interfaces de computador. Brotando como cogumelos após a chuva, a galáxia vertiginosa de janelas pop-up e webcam projeta uma nova intimidade milenar.
An atmospheric fever dream unfurling over motel rooms and prison cells, Nina Menkes’s groundbreaking first feature traces the cyclical nature of exploitation. Simmering with rage, Tinka Menkes’s potent evocation of a fractured female psyche unveils the emotional ravage of transactional encounters.
If your path has ever led to Istanbul, you most probably called a stray cat by name and touched their furry head with tenderness. Ceyda Torun’s high-spirited and affecting documentary tells the story of decades-long exchanges between Istanbulites and their feline friends in the streets.
Paul Schrader’s splendidly sordid second film dives into the sexual underworld of ‘70s California and its adult film industry. A brilliant combination of John Ford’s The Searchers, the existential nihilism of Taxi Driver (which Schrader of course wrote) and the combustible acting of George C. Scott.
Riotously campy as a 1950s housewife awakened to fetishistic thrills, Oscar® nominee Andrea Riseborough is a vortex of sexual chaos in Amanda Kramer’s genderqueer musical fantasia, also starring Demi Moore. Dripping with neon colors, Please Baby Please surrenders to the ecstasy of erotic liberation.
Drifting through transient terrains on foot and by train and boat, Nina Menkes’s hypnotic odyssey evokes unspoken feelings of exile and alienation through trance-like imagery. As the vagabond heroine, the enigmatic aura of her real-life sister Tinka Menkes strikes a powerful, autobiographical cord.
Sara Cwynar mergulha em uma avalanche de telas feitas para compras e vigilância neste curta fascinante. Capturando a forma compulsiva com que clicamos, rolamos e deslizamos a tela, a artista canadense apresenta loops infinitos com uma visão deslumbrante do que é a beleza estética atualmente.
Aired on PBS three years after Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 striking workers, this dramatization of labor disputes in 1910s Chicago is exhilaratingly pro-union. Maximizing the democratic reach of the small screen and its scope for densely detailed storytelling, it is a riveting and rousing watch.
Co-written with Chris Marker, this French New Wave travelogue both delights in the carnival that is American abundance and lifts the lid on cookie-cutter uniformity to reveal inequality and waste beneath. Wait for the ending: a heavenward gaze at glassy skyscrapers that is nothing short of sublime.
Reunited with his Antichrist and Melancholia collaborator Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lars von Trier returns to the life of protagonist Jo to conclude what may well prove his magnum opus. A lofty work—less lusty, but still stark and shocking—rich in metaphor and psychological insight.
Perhaps the most epic of Lars von Trier’s many provocations, this stylistically strange, sprawling and yes, substantial, character study comprehensively approaches the subjects of love and sex and everything in between. A fascinating, daring drama—featuring Stacy Martin in her first film role.
O longa luminoso de Carla Simón — candidato espanhol ao Oscar® e vencedor do Urso de Ouro — é um retrato geracional da vida agrícola contado de várias perspectivas. Quando o choque entre tradição e modernidade fica cada vez mais difícil de ignorar, uma família busca soluções sob o sol escaldante.
The last film in the “Diaspora Suite,” Fluid Frontiers places readings of radical texts from the Black Arts Movement, like those of Audre Lorde and Sonia Sanchez, in the middle of present-day Detroit. A vibrant portrait of a place and its people, tracing how ideas continue to live and breathe.
Using Godard’s La chinoise as an inspired jumping-off point, Ephraim Asili’s electrifying debut feature draws on his experiences in collective living and political struggle to explore the legacies of Black activism. An innovative meta-cinematic collage of radical ideas and formal experimentation.
