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Virtual unknowns in non-Spanish speaking markets, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo — often collectively known in Spain as “Los Javis” have brought their brand to queer storytelling with their musical sensibilities. Their only work to date had been the musical...

He has been owning Sundance since he premiered 1996 The Delta and three decades later the cinema of Ira Sachs has been expanding to new A list film fest destinations with his most recent drops at the Berlinale in for...

A relative newcomer to cinema with only the co-directed Zero Fucks Given (with Julie Lecoustre) selected for the 2021 edition of Critics’ Week, Emmanuel Marre’s cinema looks at marginalized lives andf reedom versus responsibility. With A Man of His Time...

It is Seldom That a Dream Comes True: Sachs Sends Regard with Poignant Elegy In the realm of contemporary queer auteurs, there isn’t anyone quite like Ira Sachs and his collaborating writer/partner Mauricio Zacharias who utilize cinema as a medium...

Lost Illusions: Marre Administers Plodding Portrait of an Opportunist “There’s nothing worse than being bored with a boring man,” according to French writer Antoine Laurain. The statement applies to both the subject and the film Notre salut (A Man of...

Deep Sea, Baby: Kotzamani Goes Down Where It’s Wetter Greek filmmaker Konstantina Kotzamani heads to Japan for her directorial debut, Titanic Ocean, its fanciful title a reference to the private reminiscences of a young woman who is heavily involved in...

The only title to have had its world premiere prior to hitting the south of France is Bitter Christmas from Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar. The El Deseo factory is no stranger to the fest — but it wasn’t until Best Director...

The Cranes Aren’t Flying: Zvyagintsev Unleashes Primordial Tendencies “They always end disastrously,” Kate Burton advises Diane Lane of extramarital affairs in Adrian Lyne’s 2002 erotic thriller Unfaithful, a remake of Claude Chabrol’s 1969 classic An Unfaithful Wife. It ends up...

We nearly lost this master filmmaker during the Covid pandemic and so Minotaur counts as Andrey Zvyagintsev’s first oeuvre after being hospitalized for a year and his debut work outside his homeland. His feature debut The Return (2003) won the...

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?: Refn Returns with Vacuous Vengeance After disappearing into television for the past decade, Nicolas Winding Refn once again rears into the cinema with Her Private Hell, which unfortunately is an insufferable, nonsensical exercise...