Son of Saul
László Nemes’s debut film Son of Saul is quite simply an astonishing and profoundly disturbing piece of work. Winner of the 2016 Oscar for Foreign Language Film and the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2015 it […]
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Son of Saul
Mommy
Before the action starts in French-Canadian writer/director Xavier Donan’s 5th movie, we are told we are in a Canada where, as of the 2015, new legislation means parents of unruly children are allowed to dump […]
La Maison de la Radio
This documentary by Nicolas Philibert purports to be a single day in the life of French national public radio broadcaster Radio France, starting with breakfast news and ending with the follow day starting anew. It […]
Blanche
This curiously uninvolving movie is beautifully shot. Blanche is a lusty, medieval tale of three different but stupid men all wanting to get their end away with an equally dim woman. This is probably why the […]
La bête (The Beast)
When a film starts with a huge erect horse penis flailing around and close-ups of an engorged pulsating horse’s vagina, you kind of get an idea of you might expect in the following 90 or […]