Bamse and the City of Thieves

After several animated shorts made in the 1960s and ’70s, this was the first feature starring Rune Andreasson’s friendly but super-strong bear Bamse. The story (which shares similarities with the…

Goodbye June

Kate Winslet’s directing debut became a family affair, as the script was written by her son. It is also the story of a family coming together as the cancer-stricken mother…

Possession: A West Berlin Divorce

Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. Photo: Gaumont Some time ago, I was getting to know a young woman from Poland who was a bit of an original. She had a…

Let It Rain

A retired theater director and recent widower (Robert Gustafsson) learns that he has the ability to conjure rain at will by using a concealed tap that he finds in his…

The Grinch

As the Grinch prepares to sabotage Christmas celebrations in Whoville, six-year-old Cindy Lou needs to have a serious talk with Santa. A huge box-office success, this take on the Dr.…

Avatar: Fire and Ash

As Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and his men continue their search for Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his family, another, aggressive, Na’vi tribe make their presence known. The third Avatar…

Nouvelle Vague 

Richard Linklater has flirted with France before, but not as passionately as in this drama-comedy about the rise of the French New Wave, where we follow the chaotic making of…

Silent Night, Deadly Night

After watching his parents get killed by a criminal in a Santa suit, Billy Chapman (Robert Brian Wilson) grows up a disturbed young man; something happens in his head every…

Raptures

In 1930s Torne Valley, the members of a religious cult expect a flying ark to descend from the heavens and take them to Palestine, but when disappointment sets in everything…

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

At the same time as Iman (Missagh Zareh) is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran, protests erupt in the streets, startling his two daughters (Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki). This…