“Are healthy people truly alive?” It is early into All of a Sudden when Marie-Lou (Virginie Efira) hears the question that rings as a tagline for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s new feature. The head of a private Parisian clinic for the elderly, she’s watching a play about Franco Basaglia, the Italian psychiatrist who, in the late 1970s, […]
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With the halfway point of this year’s Cannes Film Festival fast approaching, one of the best movies I’ve seen is a Chilean chiller called The Meltdown. The story is set in a snowy ski lodge high up in the Andes, where a precocious 9-year-old named Inés (a wonderful Maya O’Rourke) befriends a German skier who […]
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Little word that comes out of Cannes is likely to match the news of Kenneth Lonergan’s return. A full decade since Manchester by the Sea (and two from Margaret‘s production), the writer-director has prepped a major cast for Tomorrow Is a Drag: Aubrey Plaza and Adam Driver for us Megalopolis heads, Vanessa Kirby, and Lonergan […]
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After two decades of features, Iranian Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi has made one thing abundantly clear: he lives in the grey zone, and so should we. Parallel Tales, Farhadi’s tenth film (and second in French), is a blend of Rear Window, Stranger Than Fiction, and Peeping Tom (there’s even a little Godfather in there) without […]
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“Look into my eyes / can you see they’re open wide / would I lie to you?” Those lyrics linger in the air as a soft whisper for only a moment before the accompanying piano notes carry them away and into the beginning of Gentle Monster, the latest from Corsage director Marie Kreutzer. One might […]
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It’s never wise to assume anything. Promotional materials doing the rounds before Club Kid‘s raucous Cannes premiere this week suggested a New York downtown scene answer to Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden, but Jordan Firstman’s funny, bittersweet, and tremendously moving directorial debut is as much a fresh reimagining of the stunted father subgenre that gave us everything […]
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One of this year’s most-anticipated premieres is a rare occurrence for the Cannes Film Festival: a sequel. Coming full circle, Lisandro Alonso’s new feature is a follow-up to his acclaimed debut La libertad. Double Freedom (aka La libertad doble) catches up with woodcutter Misael (Misael Saavedra) a quarter-century later and is said to tell a meta tale about the […]
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Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize-winning writer and voice of the German resistance from abroad, fled Germany in 1933 to take refuge in California, where he lived for sixteen years before returning to Germany in 1949 to receive the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt, show face, and embrace the flattery of his snowballing celebrity. That’s where we enter […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA series of rare Korean cinema is on display in Celluloid Fever. Japan SocietyKazuhiko Hasegawa’s Anarchic Ethos features an ultra-rare print of The Man Who Stole the Sun—my pick for one of the 10 best films ever made—his other directing effort The Youth Killer on 16mm, and […]
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. A Balcony in Limoges (Jérôme Reybaud) Reybaud observes a chance meeting between two former classmates who are now middle-aged women. Eugénie, a single mother who’s proud of being a “good […]
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