Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's feature debut tells a very queer ghost story within a story about the importance of remembering. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
Gradually making her presence known on the Croisette first with her Cinéfondation selected Niagara (2013) short, and eventually with 2022’s Plan 75 – an Un Certain Regard selection that would end up landing a Camera d’Or Special Mention (read ★★½...
In Eddington, Ari Aster’s latest doom spiral, the proposed building of a data center in nowhere New Mexico provides the catalyst for a long-overdue psychological breakdown. The man in question is Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix), whose perceived list of...
Evidence of Love: Douard’s Debut Reads Between the Lines of Maternal Affections While it plays like something of a specific time capsule, Alice Douard’s Love Letters is really about a compounded state of transition, conflating fluctuating cultural realities with one woman’s...
White Impact: Pinho Explores the Ponderous Progress Through Post-Colonial Perceptions “We never seem to be where we are,” remarks one of the characters in Pedro Pinho’s simmering sophomore feature I Only Rest in the Storm (O riso e a faca),...
Late into I Only Rest in the Storm, Sergio (Sérgio Coragem) is asked a question he can’t seem to answer: what do you care about? A Portuguese environmental engineer hired to evaluate the ecological impact of a massive road set...
For the French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe, a competition berth in Cannes has been a long time coming. Laxe was here in 2010 (You All Are Captains), 2016 (Mimosas), and 2019 (Fire Will Come) without once going home empty-handed, and he...
As reminders that ignorance, bigotry, and hate can literally kill, stories about the AIDS epidemic will always be relevant. The latest, beautiful example arrived courtesy of Chilean writer-director Diego Céspedes, whose feature debut The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo premiered...
While ghosts and spirits have long been the conduit for cinematic scares and jolts, from The Innocents to Poltergeist to The Ring, a relatively recent wave of films exploring the supernatural has been more concerned with the tangible, emotional effects...