An enterprising ragamuffin (newcomer Kyle Catlett) from Montana (by way of the director’s The City of Lost Children) takes a road trip. Destination: the lost District of Columbia for a Smithsonian gala in his honor. A halcyon maze, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s shrewdly sweet-tempered surreal fantasyland is an eyegasmic saturnalia of expressive …
Parisian provocateur Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool, Time to Leave) again fixes his clinician’s gaze on the business of lust to further explore his pet preoccupations of identity and sexuality among teenage adolescents. In Isabelle’s (Marine Vacth) case, sexuality is allied with neither money nor feelings. Nor is the privileged schoolkid …
What do you call a low budget, largely improvised horror film that’s shot in SeizureVision and dead on arrival? Mumblecorpse. Remember The Strangers, the atrocious slasher film where married couple Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman are terrorized by a band of masked spree killers while staying at an isolated vacation …
"You can't choose your family," goes the old saying. You Will Be My Son shows what may happen when you try. It's not a surprising story, but it is a satisfying one, saved from devolvement into grotesquerie by its layered performances, perfect setting in the world of fine wine (where …
Matteo Oleotto presents the story of a hefty barfly who finds himself charged with the care of a 15-year-old relative who is undoubtedly odd but also possibly a darts prodigy. Subtitled.