Backlight — directed by Ren Sudo — is currently part of the 2023 Chicago Japan Film Collective, that showcases Japan’s finest programmes in the windy city, focusing on the work created by women, the LGBTQ community, and minority filmmakers. The film very delicately introduces the topic of a homosexual love during youth, in the Seventies….
Serge Toubiana is the doyen of cinephiles. The film critic who was born in Tunisia and grew up in France, is one of the most prominent cinema journalists worldwide who was appointed Commander of Order of Arts and bestowed with the highest order of merits in France, the Legion of Honour. Serge Toubiana was at…
Katja Gauriloff, the award-winning film director from Finland, presents at the Tribeca Film Festival another of her influential films: Je’vida. The beautifully-shot, black and white, picture is a journey of acceptance, discovery and reconciliation. The narrative opens up with an aunt (Lida) and her niece (Sanna) who have never met before and drive to Lapland…
If you can dream it, you can do it. This is the feel good message of Flamin’ Hot, that marks Eva Longoria’s directorial debut and brings to the screen the story of a man who went from being a janitor to Director of Multicultural Marketing in a multinational company. Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), after a…
Director Mary Harron depicts the poetic decline of the master of Surrealism through the cinematic medium. Her film, Dalíland, had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. We meet Salvador Dalí, played by Sir Ben Kingsley, at the height his career as he entertains himself with extravagant parties whilst keeping up with…
American filmmaker and media strategist Nancy Schwartzman has made a documentary on a very poignant issue of our era. The film Victim/Suspect discusses (quoting an article from The New York Times) “When the Accuser Becomes the Accused.” The movie follows the work of investigative reporter Rachel de Leon, who dedicated 4 years of her life…
Marco Bellocchio, the secular director from Piacenza, has often explored the consequences of religious imposition — never being sententious yet remaining truthful to his laical perspective. In his 2002 film, My Mother’s Smile (L’ora di religione), he touched upon the sensitive issue of being baptised in treason. In that case it occurred to the son of the…
Life and art have a vigorous osmosis. Filmmaker Bill Holderman exemplified this with his directorial debut: the 2018 romantic comedy Book Club. The entertaining flick showed how the readings of four friends, during their monthly book club, would affect their personal lives. The success of this cinematic guilty pleasure has lead to a sequel, Book…
Director and co-writer David Lowery delivers a live-action reimagining of the J.M. Barrie novel and the 1953 animated classic, that is available on Disney+. Peter Pan & Wendy introduces Wendy Moira Angela Darling (Ever Gabo Anderson), a young girl who does not want to renounce to the playful fun of childhood, whereas her family encourages…
Japan Society’s Rites of Passage: The Films of Shinji Somai celebrates the Japanese filmmaker’s evocation of adolescence by including in its line-up the 1990 feature Tokyo Heaven. Yuu Kamiya (Riho Makise) is sixteen years old, when she leaves school to embark upon a career in entertainment. It takes no time for her to realise how…
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