The Smashing Machine

Sooner or later, you reach that stage when you’ve made more action-comedies than you can count, and start looking for something meatier. In Dwayne Johnson’s case it’s a biography from…

Late Shift

The original title may be a bit obvious, but there’s no doubt that the film is a thoroughly convincing and frustrating look into the overwhelming situation for understaffed healthcare workers,…

Being Maria

What Maria Schneider went through while making Last Tango in Paris (1972) becomes a revealing illustration of the need for preventing movie sets from becoming a boys club in the…

Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Blanche (Emmanuelle Chaulet) is interested in Alexandre (François-Éric Gendron), whom she meets at a public bathhouse together with a new acquaintance, Léa (Sophie Renoir); however, Léa’s boyfriend Fabien (Éric Viellard)…

Queen Christina: Angst on the Silver Throne

Greta Garbo. Photo: MGM In January 1934, Greta Garbo’s latest picture had not yet opened in her native country. Queen Christina depicted a Swedish 17th-century queen who abdicated the throne,…

The Great Lillian Hall

As Broadway star Lillian Hall (Jessica Lange) is rehearsing a new production of Chekhov’s ”The Cherry Orchard”, she struggles with her lines and gets an inevitable update from her doctor.…

Beware of Children

After the accidental death of a child, a small community grapple with what actually happened, including the principal (Henriette Steenstrup) who has a secret. Director Dag Johan Haugerud’s international breakthrough…

The Green Ray

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Delphine (Marie Rivière) is facing summer without any clear plans, and keep wondering where to go and with whom to spend her holiday. The…

Sentimental Value: Life with Father

Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning. Photo: Neon When my parents sold the house where I grew up and moved into an apartment, I walked through the increasingly empty rooms and…

Steve

In 1990, Steve (Cillian Murphy) is a teacher at a school for boys with societal difficulties, battling himself as well as attempts to close the school down. Murphy reunited with…