Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, 2021. Written and directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Starring Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori, Shouma Kai, Fusako Urabe, and Aoba Kawai. SYNOPSIS: An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap, and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters […]
Movie Review – Drive My Car (2021)
Drive My Car, 2021. Co-written and directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, and Reika Kirishima. SYNOPSIS: Nishijima Hidetoshi is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears. Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s 2013 short story of the same name, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s new drama Drive My Car […]
Movie Review – Brain Freeze (2021)
Brain Freeze, 2021. Written and directed by Julien Knafo. Starring Iani Bédard, Roy Dupuis, Marianne Fortier, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, and Claudia Ferri. SYNOPSIS: A fertiliser used in a rich gated community becomes the source of a genetic mutation that transforms its residents into zombies. Can a teenager and his baby sister break free from the quarantined […]
Movie Review – Babysitter (2022)
Babysitter, 2022. Directed by Monia Chokri. Starring Patrick Hivon, Monia Chokri, Nadia Tereszkiewcz, Steve Laplante, and Hubert Proulx. SYNOPSIS: After a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny. He and his girlfriend hire a mysterious and liberated babysitter to help shake […]
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review – Gentle
Gentle, 2022. Written and directed by László Csuja and Anna Nemes. Starring Eszter Csonka, György Turós, and Csaba Krisztik. SYNOPSIS: Female bodybuilder Edina is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with her life partner and trainer Adam: to win the Miss Olympia. The odd love she finds on her way makes her […]
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review – Aftershock
Aftershock, 2022. Directed by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee. SYNOPSIS: Follows two bereaved fathers who galvanise activists, birth-workers, and physicians to reckon with the U.S. maternal health crisis after losing their partners due to preventable childbirth complications. Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s shattering documentary Aftershock features a quote that’ll likely stick with you for […]
Movie Review – Azor (2021)
Azor, 2021. Written and directed by Andreas Fontana. Starring Fabrizio Rongione, Stéphanie Cléau, and Carmen Iriondo. SYNOPSIS: Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight. Swiss filmmaker Andreas Fontana makes an impressively […]
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future, 2022. Directed by Francisca Alegria. Starring Leonor Varela, Mia Maestro, Alfredo Castro, Marcial Tagle, Enzo Ferrada, and Luis Dubó. SYNOPSIS: Cecilia travels to her father’s farm after he has a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia is met by her long-deceased mother whose presence […]
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review – Neptune Frost
Neptune Frost, 2021. Directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman. Starring Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo “Bobo,” Bertrand Ninteretse “Kaya Free,” Eliane Umuhire, Rebecca Muciyo, and Trésor Niyongabo. SYNOPSIS: An intersex African hacker, a coltan miner, and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union. One of the most materially bizarre films made in […]
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review – Descendant
Descendant, 2022. Directed by Margaret Brown. SYNOPSIS: Follows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story. Margaret Brown’s (The Great Invisible) new film chronicles one largely forgotten community’s fight to preserve its ancestors’ tragic history, in turn delivering a towering […]
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