In the opening scenes of George Stevens classic “Giant” (1956), Rock Hudson’s character arrives on a steamy train looking out on a green Maryland mid-1920’s landscape. He’s a tall, butch, handsome, and rich Texan rancher with a fondness for riding stallions – his cowboy hat is huge, and his eyes are gentle. Standing on a…
In 2019 “Martin Eden” made a splash in the arthouse film world. The Jack London based story of a tortured man in Naples craving to write prose with his working-class hands in post-World War II, established Pietro Marcello as a clever filmmaker with fresh ideas and salty nerve. In his follow up “Scarlet” another pair…
Most people have read the wise or strange messages of a Chinese fortune cookie, and perhaps wonder who actually wrote it. Whatever the message says it seems to leave you with a good feeling after the meal. The extraordinary film “Fremont”, a black and white gem at Sundance Film Festival 2023, gives you that sense…
SYNOPSIS : As she celebrates her 40th birthday in 1877, Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, finds herself lacing her trademark corset ever tighter to remain relevant in a world that is leaving her behind. Once a beloved symbol of the splendor of her empire, Elisabeth has become the object of salacious gossip…
“There is a birthplace and there is a home place”. The words from Reverend Norvel Goff Sr opens the documentary “After Sherman”. It is also the core of what is to follow. We are where we come from, but we become where we are. Wherever home is now, the past is always present. For the…
For Mia Hansen-Løve cinema and life work together. Without nostalgia, the French director builds her films around her own experiences and merge realism and poetry with a flowing passage of time. In “One Fine Morning” she once again dives into the personal and returns to her beloved Paris. In her Isabelle Huppert- helmed “Things to…
Luca Guadagnino has an underdog’s needs. After examining the changing shades of desire in his linked “I Am Love”, “A Bigger Splash” and “Call Me by Your Name” he now enters a world of forbidden needs and rips our hearts out. In “Bones and All” the law of desire is both heartbreaking and blood-soaked when…
There is no doubt that the Japanese master filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda is fascinated with family. Not necessary a nuclear family and family bound by blood. In his latest film “Broker”, as in his Golden Palm winner and Oscar nominated “Shoplifters”, he forms an unconventional family of a group of criminals. This time on an unusual…
At night they are drugged and raped. For years women wake up with pain and sheets soaked in blood, but no memory of what happened. Ghosts and demons did it, say the men in the ultraconservative remote religious colony. But these women know better. And they talk. Now it’s time to decide. Stay and fight,…
Masculinity in crisis with repressed sexuality has been depicted in numerous forms and levels, especially the lone policeman with a dubious past who struggles with his identity. But the Brazilian drama “Private Desert” gets an unusual virtual touch when a nuanced transgender character is the center of an unexpected queer love story trapped under patriarchy. The…
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