Yves Saint Laurent was undoubtedly a brilliant and significant fashion icon — just look at how many films have been made about him of late. You had 2010's documentary L'Amour Fou, 2014's Yves Saint Laurent, and now this entry, which largely dispenses with the whole "story of a life" and/or …
A documentary film about Saint Michael the Archangel. Writers, faithful and clergy of the Catholic Church, in the places of revelation and worship of Saint Michael the Archangel, discover the mystery of the first among the Angels of Light. The testimony of faith, the history of the Church, architecture and …
Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama's convictions and call …
Based on the autobiography of celebrity ichthyologist Sakana-Kun, a young boy, passionate about fish, is unpopular at school and has to contend with his doubtful father concerned about his future. After finding support in his mother he eventually turned his passion into a life of working to study, advocate for, …
Children of the streets, Indian-style. Pretty tough as compared with what we usually see from that country -- namely, Satyajit Ray -- though it's no Los Olvidados by a long shot. It's even a short shot from a Pixote. Directed by documentarist Mira Nair -- her first fiction film -- …
A gang leader tries to keep a promise made to his dying friend and takes on the other criminal gangs. Directed by Prashanth Neel, starring Prabhas, Prithviraj, Shruthi Haasan, Tinu Anand, and Eshwari Rao.
A gang leader tries to keep a promise made to his dying friend and takes on the other criminal gangs. Directed by Prashanth Neel, starring Prabhas, Prithviraj, Shruthi Haasan, Tinu Anand, and Eshwari Rao.
Set in an American high school in the midst of a student's passing, the film explores memory, creation, and the transformative experience of loss.
We open in mid-collapse: an Iranian couple, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), soon to star in a blue-penciled staging of Death of a Salesman, are forced to relocate when their tenement begins to crumble. Their new apartment — the former home of an in-demand prostitute and an ex-John …
Canadian songbird K.D. Lang (her acting debut, complete with nude scene) as an introverted Alaskan pipeline worker of indeterminate sex or sexual persuasion, who comes out, so to speak, for a fish-out-of-water German librarian (Rosel Zech). Being odd is so high a priority that the movie has no time to …
The charm stretches but doesn’t break in Lasse Hallström’s odd, gentle comedy about a visionary sheikh (Amr Waked) who devises a dam, river, and salmon in dry, hot Yemen. Caught up in his crazy but moving scheme are two Brit dreamers (Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor). It has some of the …
The Oscar Wilde play as it might have been privately performed before the author himself by amateur actors at a fin-de-siècle brothel. The overripe production, and most especially the overarch title portrait by Imogen Millais-Scott, makes little sense within the given framework. But were you to take another step outward …