Tag: reviews

Bye Bye Morons [Adieu les cons] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Bye Bye Morons [Adieu les cons] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Suze Trappet (Virginie Efira)’s years-long quest to find the son whom she surrendered at birth has acquired fresh urgency with ...
Arab Blues [Un divan à Tunis] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Arab Blues [Un divan à Tunis] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

After living in Paris from the age of 10 and obtaining a psychotherapy degree, Selma (Golshifteh Farahani) moves back to ...
The Big Hit [Un triomphe] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

The Big Hit [Un triomphe] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Offered a chance to get prisoners involved in drama, Étienne (Kad Merad), an actor out of work and no longer ...
[Film review] Nomadland

[Film review] Nomadland

It’s winter in Empire, Nevada, and U.S. Gypsum’s plant there, which has provided work for most of the town, has ...
[Film review] The Truffle Hunters

[Film review] The Truffle Hunters

Deep in the Piemonte forests in northern Italy hides the highly prized fruiting body of a subterranean fungus: the Alba ...
[Film review] A Writer’s Odyssey

[Film review] A Writer’s Odyssey

Guan Ning (Jiayin Lei) has increasingly entered another world whenever he closes his eyes, a world from which his daughter ...
[Film review] The Nest

[Film review] The Nest

The O’Hara family enjoys a happy middle-class life in New York City. Rory O’Hara (Jude Law) is a trader, and ...
[Film review] The Food Club [Madklubben]

[Film review] The Food Club [Madklubben]

It’s almost Christmas, and Marie (Kirsten Olesen) is working late at the business she owns with her husband, Henrik (Peter ...
[Film review] Long Story Short

[Film review] Long Story Short

With fireworks erupting over the Sydney Harbour Bridge, serial procrastinator Teddy (Rafe Spall) rushes to kiss in the New Year ...
[Film review] Occupation: Rainfall

[Film review] Occupation: Rainfall

Review by John P. Harvey. Set two years after an alien invasion of Earth (Occupation), Occupation: Rainfall could be an ...