Sound of Falling

An undeniably ambitious but also very challenging depiction of four girls and women in four different eras and their lives on a farm in the Altmark region in eastern Germany.…

A Man and a Woman: Romance for the Ages

Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Photo: Les Films 13 ”Claude Lelouch, remember this name well, because you will not hear it again”. That was the cruel verdict of the classic…

The Tank

After an explosive near-death experience on a bridge, a German Tiger tank crew get a new mission as they move deeper into the Soviet Union during World War II: rescue…

Battle of Oslo

In April 1940, as the Germans begin their invasion of Norway, it is up to Colonel Birger Eriksen (Bjørn Sundquist), commander of a fortress in the Oslofjord, to slow them…

Cover-Up

In recent years, Seymour Hersh’s standing as an investigative reporter has weakened due to mistakes he’s made (like trusting Syrian dictator Assad a little too much) and reporting that has…

Sisu

During the Lapland War, gold digger Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila) finds himself in deadly conflict with a platoon of German Nazis. A natural move for the director after having fun…

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…