BFI LFF 2022: Holy Spider
★★★★☆
Holy Spider, angrily written and directed by Ali Abbasi (Border), and screening at the BFI London Film Festival, is a grisly, reality-based story of violence against women in a patriarchal, theocratic society.
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Everything Went Fine (2021) (Tout s’est bien passé)
★★★★☆
Everything Went Fine by François Ozon is a tender, surprisingly darkly humorous look at euthanasia and family relationships.
Cannes Film Festival 2022 Day 1: Opening Film Coupez! (Final Cut) 2022
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival Day 1: Opening Film Coupez! (Final Cut) 2022 – the Opening Film Out of Competition is Final Cut directed by Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist).
Casablanca Beats (2021)
★★★★☆
In Casablanca Beats, director Nabil Ayouch blurs the line between fiction and documentary in the exhilarating story of a charismatic group of young would-be rappers in Morocco.
Azor (2021)
★★★★☆
Azor, Andra Fontana’s subtle, sophisticated feature debut, unsettles with an increasing sense of dread as a Swiss banker is enveloped in the Argentinian junta’s heart of darkness.
BFI LFF 2021: Azor (2021)
★★★★☆
Azor, Andra Fontana’s subtle, sophisticated feature debut, unsettles with an increasing sense of dread as a Swiss banker is enveloped in the Argentinian junta’s heart of darkness.
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Day 11
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Day 11
Cannes Film Festival Day 9: Titane
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 9: Titane
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 10
★★★★★
Cannes 2021 Day 10: Les Olympiades, Memoria, France./
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Day 8
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival: Day 8
Deerskin (2019)
★★★★☆
Deerskin (Le Daim) by Quentin Dupieux is an oddball, quirky black comedy about a suede jacket with killer propensities.
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 2: Tout s’est Bien Passé (Everything Went Fine) 2021
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Day 2
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Opening Film: Annette (2021)
★★★★☆
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It Must Be Heaven (2019)
★★★★☆
It Must Be Heaven continues Elia Suleiman’s deadpan global quest for recognition of Palestinian identity and homeland.