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Radu Jude has been rolling through features since his international breakout Aferim! in 2015, and his taste is nearly impossible to pin down. The films range from a three-hour documentary on the first massacre of Jews in Romania during WWII...

Cinema has taken viewers to the trenches of World War I so often that audiences might as well have formed sensory memories of a throat-clenching terror, the screams drowned by a sudden explosion and ears ringing. It’s all artificial, of...

When it comes to storytelling, if the 19th and 20th centuries were defined by grandiose literature, the 21st century is all about cinema. We read less and watch more; consequently, films have become a substitute for sweeping stories that weave...

Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva—winner of the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize—begins from a familiar cinematic premise: a school trip abroad for a busload of restless teenagers temporarily freed from the surveillance of home. Yet the film steadily slips from the...