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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A list of all the films I’ve seen in cinema in 2021.
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Diese Woche kommt der exzellente Dokumentarfilm Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse von Maria Speth in die Kinos. Der Film handelt von einer sechsten Schulklasse in Mittelhessen und ihrem Lehrer Herr Bachmann, der kurz vor der Rente steht und mit einer ganz besonderen Art unterrichtet. Er nimmt jedes einzelne Kind wahr, fördert gezielt die Kreativität z.B.
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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
Take a first look at the internationally co-produced documentary film The Lost Leonardo directed by Andreas Koefoed. The film follows the mystery behind the Salvator Mundi, an allegedly lost painting done by Leonardo Da Vinci, and the discussions surrounding its authenticity.
The 2018 French documentary film L’Isle au Tresor (Treasure Island) by Guillaume Brac is a beautiful authentic portrait of a water park in Paris. It shows natural everyday moments of the people going and working there and features some great scenes of witnessing the pure joy of youth and childhood, while also giving insight into
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The 1955 artistic French documentary short film Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) by Alain Resnais is showing on Mubi. The film deals with the holocaust, detailing the progress from the rise of the Nazis, the deportation process, the construction of concentration camps and the life of the prisoners in contrast to the camps staff
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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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Chinese-born American documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang (One Child Nation, 2019) is back with her new documentary film In the Same Breath about the beginnings of the COVID-Pandemic in China and the U.S and how the governments reacted to it. It was released in the United States on HBO recently and will hopefully be available elsewhere
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