Lightning strikes twice today – earlier we premiered the poster one sheet, and now we have the full trailer to Bruno Santamaría Razo’s Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building – an official Critics’ Week competition selection. Filmed on 16mm film, set in 90s Mexico City, the day Bruno turns 11, his growing feelings for his best friend Vladimir clash with the sudden announcement that his father (Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez) has HIV. Like in salsa songs, his family tries to sing and dance their pain away. Thirty years later, Bruno films and reimagines the memory of what he could not quite perceive as a child.… Read the rest
The metaphorical subtexts germinating to fruition through Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend are formidable, even as, with humble simplicity, they profess to be enamored with the central figure of a tree. Returning to the more meditative realm which defined her 2017 Golden Bear winner On Body and Soul (Enyedi’s first feature after a near twenty-year absence), her latest holds a steady, tranquil gaze across three distinct periods (1908, 1972, 2020) spanning a century, its characters connected by their proximity to a sturdy gingko tree in a German botanical garden. In essence, it’s a film which examines progress through our ability to communicate not only with each other but the environment around us, suggesting self-actualization is achieved through our sometimes brief moments whereby harmony is reached by mutual grasping of our interconnectedness.… 
3 Women – Robert Altman (1977)