In the film, pedagogy even has to share space with the carnal frisson of the dance floor. The post ‘I Only Rest in the Storm’ Review: Pedro Pinho’s Didactic Portrait of Post-Colonial Relations appeared first on Slant Magazine.
“It’s a fucking minefield, Alma,” the Dean of Humanities at Yale warns Julia Roberts’ Dr. Imhoff. Barely a few days have passed since her colleague, Hank (Andrew Garfield), has “crossed the line” with one of her students, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri),...
What opens Werner Herzog’s Ghost Elephants, even before we hear the German filmmaker’s distinctive cadence, is the National Geographic logo. While production credits are far from noteworthy in most cases, this one may stand out to the viewer by implying...
Traveling in a foreign land can be disorienting. Established routines lose their meaning. Unfamiliar sights, sounds, smells may trigger old memories or brand-new desires. Premiering in the Orizzonti sidebar of the 82nd Venice Film Festival, Catalan filmmaker Jaume Claret Muxart’s...
The film effortlessly melds its sadcom properties with more predictable rom-com traditions. The post ‘The Threesome’ Review: Chad Hartigan’s Refreshingly Insightful Modern Rom-Com appeared first on Slant Magazine.
Six years since The Dead Don’t Die (long enough for that film to now be underrated), Jim Jarmusch is back with Father Mother Sister Brother, which finds him returning to the episodic structure of Night on Earth and Coffee and...
Simple line art, or is there more? The key art for Tetsuya Mariko's New York City-set drama, Dear Stranger, has a few interesting textural things going on beyond its doodle-in-the-margin first glance. First is the subtle texture, like a badly...
Moments into The Roses, screenwriter Tony McNamara (The Great, Poor Things, The Favourite) and Jay Roach’s (Trumbo, Meet the Parents, the Austin Powers trilogy) remake of The War of the Roses, Danny DeVito’s 1989 masterpiece of marital disharmony, the titular...