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…

The Room Next Door

Some time after learning that an old friend of hers, Martha (Tilda Swinton), is dying from cancer, Ingrid (Julianne Moore) is asked to spend time with her before she ends…

Red Desert

After a car accident, Giuliana (Monica Vitti), who’s married to a factory manager in Ravenna, Italy, feels increasingly strange and isolated. Michelangelo Antonioni’s first film in color follows in the…

Ivan’s Childhood: Dreams of Mother

Nikolai Burlyayev. Photo: Mosfilm Sometimes you wonder whatever happened to a successful child actor. In far too many cases, their lives didn’t turn out so great, perhaps haunted by what…

Nomadland: Life of a Vandweller

Frances McDormand. Photo: Searchlight Pictures Watching this movie reminded me of a younger relative of mine. I haven’t met him for many years; he’s spent most of his time on…

Joker: Birth of a Clown Prince

Joaquin Phoenix. Photo: Warner As it is about to premiere, Joker has become a controversial film. For the Twitter crowd, director Todd Phillips’s explanation why he decided to make the…

Blue 

When her composer husband and their daughter are killed in a car crash, Julie de Courcy (Juliette Binoche) tries to isolate herself from her previous life… The first chapter of…

Rashomon: One Death, Four Stories

Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo. Photo: Daiei The Rashomon effect is a term that entered the English language maybe as early as the 1960s, meant to describe an event that…

Last Year at Marienbad: Haunting Memories

Photo: Cocinor I remember watching this French New Wave classic in film school, being oddly fascinated by it even though we watched many other similarly slow-going movies that were anything…