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In Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, Amanda Seyfried delivers the kind of performance that is steeped in considerable restraint and conviction, embodying the Shaker leader not as a distant historical figure but as a woman shaped by faith,...

Slay the Competition: Chan-wook Explores the Horrors of Capitalism In many ways, Donald Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax feels more relevant than ever, which is why Park Chan-wook’s adaptation No Other Choice feels so strangely felicitous taking place, as it...

Her cinema deals with female interiority under constraint, isolation as both burden and refuge, and working with the human body as a site of meaning and resistance, in just three offerings in The Sleepwalker (2014), The World to Come (2020) and...

Terms of Estrangement: Jarmusch’s Amusing Triptych on Familial Labors If each unhappy family is unhappy in their own way, there are still a wide variety of universal parallels to eroded family bonds, at least as suggested in Father Mother Sister...

Long before Bergman’s Persona undertook its psychological and existential excavation of selfhood, cinema had already been preoccupied for nearly a century with the blurring and fragmentation of identity; in its latest iteration, this enduring fascination resurfaces once again when a...

Exploring the intimate intersections of family, memory, and social constraint, often focusing on characters caught between personal desire and inherited structures, we first met with Lebanese filmmaker Mounia Akl back with Venice and Toronto Intl. Film Festival selected Costa Brava,...

The ARTE France Cinéma committee have thrown some pre-Holiday cheers towards some international co-productions that will for the most part begin filming next year for A-list film festival drops in 2027 and at the top of the list we find...

Schools of Survival: Gornostai Probes the Resiliency of Ukraine’s Education System During Wartime Despite reflecting the distressing normalization of wartime on an entire generation of Ukraine’s youth, there’s a semblance of hopefulness in Kateryna Gornostai’s Timestamp, a documentary which was...

Entering the third phase of her creative evolution, Antonia Campbell-Hughes transitioned from fashion into nearly two decades in front of the camera (we think back to the Cannes preemed The Other Side of Sleep and Bright Star) before stepping decisively...

A filmmaker who has emerged as one of the an important post-2010 Indian independent film movement, he cut his teeth on Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) and Ugly (2013) to move into socially grounded, humanist cinema that explores caste, class, and marginalized...