Film Review: La Belle Époque
La Belle Époque delivers a remarkable ensemble cast and razor-sharp comedic writing while discovering that it’s possible to truly love ourselves again.
La Belle Époque delivers a remarkable ensemble cast and razor-sharp comedic writing while discovering that it’s possible to truly love ourselves again.
Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko, which translates literally to “Child of Weather”) is a charming Japanese fantasy-romance animation about a struggling high-school runaway who meets a young girl with the ability to make the sun shine by praying.
At over 800 minutes – not including its five, 15-minute intermissions – La Flor is a cinematic experience unlike any other, one that transcends any rational critique of film or cinema into something entirely of its own. It is a journey of trust, doubt, beauty, and sacrifice – but ultimately, it is a film that […]
Get out your hankies! If you’re not wiping away at least a few tears at the end of this meditation on the relationship between Leonard Cohen and his “muse” Marianne Ihlen, then I would serious question your humanity.
David Robert Mitchell’s “comedic neo-noir mystery” is either a completely bonkers mess of a film, or a work of pure genius. Having sat through all 139 minutes of it, I’d say it is a bit of both.
Listen up, do your ears a favour and catch this fascinating and educational look at the underappreciated art of cinematic sound design.
For fans of South Korean television, The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil will serve nicely as a feature-length spiritual companion to the 2014 and 2017 series Bad Guys and Bad Guys 2 (Nappeun Nyeoseokdeul and Nappeun Nyeoseokdeul: Akui Doshi) which shares a similar premise and features many of the film’s lead actors in similar roles. […]
In Fabric is a cut above, a deliciously laugh-out-loud black throwback to 70’s horror that’s as blood red as the demented dress of the movie.
The Art of Self-Defense is the second feature film by U.S. director, Riley Stearns, a pitch-black deadpan comedy that offers a deeply unsettling examination of modern masculinity and identity.
Knife+Heart (Un couteau dans le cœur) is a gloriously taboo French thriller from director Yann Gonzalez, which combines aspects of erotic psychodrama and giallo cinema with a pulsating, dream-synth score from M83.