Movies

For all of the rip-roaring set pieces in Na Hong-jin’s creature feature Hope, there’s a scene at the halfway point that encapsulates everything that makes it so wildly entertaining. After a solitary monster has just torn its way through a small Korean mining town by the DMZ, an older ginseng farmer tells police officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) that, actually, there’s more than…

The aftermath of an atrocity is a compelling place to start a story, not least because it foreshadows the next set of social challenges that will await if any of the current global atrocities ever end. Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s stunning debut feature, a decade in the making, wrestles with the mood in Rwanda 18 years after the 1994 genocide. It was…

The maestro of melodrama, Pedro Almódovar, is currently making some of the finest films of his storied career – his run from 2015’s Julieta onwards has seen the Spanish icon apply a strict ​“bangers only” policy to his creative output, and his scintillating new one, Bitter Christmas, abides by that self-set edict. Like all auto-fiction worth…

Loosely inspired by a graphic novel co-authored with his brother Lucas Harari, Arthur Harari’s latest feature sees a depressed Parisian photographer undergo a distressing transformation after meeting a woman at a masquerade party. David Zimmerman (Niels Schneider) spends his time photographing the suburbs in a continuation of a project started by his father before his suicide. He’s emotionally unavailable, which recently led…

Detention is a difficult film to assess as an American. The documentary, which follows trainee corrections officers at France’s National School of the Penitentiary Administration (ENAP), is recognizably a critique, showing the paradoxes of modern methods applied to an ancient carceral logic. But to a viewer from a country where law-enforcement officers are both heavily armed and heavily fearful,…

Beyond these two, the main character arc of the film involves Rotta, the muscle-bound son of Jabba the Hutt, played with little conviction by The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White. His uncanny, often awkwardly-posed CG visage aside, he spends much of the film feeling like if Woody from Toy Story explained his pathology about his father…

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss much anticipatedThe Devil Wears Prada 2 and Damian McCarthy’s indie horror Hokum. For Film Club, we revisit the iconic fashion documentary The September Issue. Joining host Leila Latif are Lillian Crawford and Billie Walker. Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White…

Actors-turned-directors are turning heads at Cannes and in this dispatch. Here are two films, one from Un Certain Regard and another the Cannes Premieres section, which not only rely on actors moving behind the camera. They’re also queer movies, which offer two very different experiences, but nonetheless hold the commonality of people searching to affirm…

It’s been 10 years since Nicolas Winding Refn made a feature film – his last, The Neon Demon, played In Competition at Cannes in 2016, where its heady mix of high fashion horror divided audiences. A decade has passed but Refn’s directorial instincts remain the same – his giallo-inspired Her Private Hell has been causing quite the stir…

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers and hear from star Ian McKellen about the film.   Joining host Leila Latif is David Jenkins. The post Steven Soderbergh Special + The Christophers + Ian McKellen first appeared on Little White Lies. Source link