Beautiful little Italian-language arthouse drama “A Chiara” written and directed by Jonas Carpignano has been released in cinemas this week in Germany. Set in a Calabrian town it follows teenage girl Chiara looking for her father, whose disappearance in the night of her sister’s 18th birthday seems to be related to the local mafia. Shot […]
The great 2021 French drama L’événement (Happening) by directress Audrey Diwan was released recently. It follows young promising literature student Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei) in the 60’s who gets pregnant before her final exams and tries to get an abortion, which was illegal at the time, bore great health dangers and could even lead to her
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The US-Colombian 2004 HBO drama film Maria Full of Grace written and directed by Joshua Marston is an excellent early 2000s naturalistic international arthouse film. It follows Colombian teenage girl Maria Álvarez, who is unsatisfied with her poor life situation and agrees to take on the job of a drug mule. The dramatic structure is
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The 2020 psychological drama film The Father written and directed by French director Florian Zeller is now screening in cinemas. The film is about an aging man called Anthony played by Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, 1991) who is suffering more and more from dementia and his daughter Anne who tries to find help
On Mubi you can watch the great Georgian-French drama film დასაწყისი (Beginning) by Déa Kulumbegashvili that was released in 2020 and is her first feature film. It follows Yana, the wife of a Jehova’s Witnesses community leader, who struggles with her life and emotional world in the aftermath of an attack by extremists. It is
The 2020 Taiwanese film Days (日子) by director Tsai Ming-Liang looks slow and interesting. It competed at last years Berlinale and like the director’s other films is of minimalist nature, slowly paced and features little dialogue.
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The new US epic medieval-fantasy film The Green Knight directed, written and produced by David Lowery (Ghost Story, 2017) is showing in cinemas and is worth a look. The film stars Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, 2008) as young Sir Gawain, who wants to become a respected knight at his uncle King Arthur’s round table in
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The US biographical drama film Judas and the Black Messiah directed by Shaka King is out now in cinemas. Set in the late 60s the film is about the betrayal of Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out / Black Panther), the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, by
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The 2020 US drama film “Nomadland” by Chloé Zhao that won the Oscar for Best Picture at this years Academy Awards is out now in cinemas. It is based on the book by the same name by Jessica Bruder and follows Fern (Frances McDormand [Three Billboards, 2017] a vandwelling working nomad, who left her hometown
The French film Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas (Carlos TV Mini-Series, 2010) from 1996 is an interesting and weird experience about Hong-Kong movie star Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love, 2000) playing herself, who is cast by…