The Parisian johns served by two young, clever prostitutes never quite see them as people. But the women are so intensely observed by magazine writer Anne (Juliette Binoche) that their risky lives lift her from middle-aged blahs as a mom and wife. They eroticize her imagination, not just her feminism. …
Compared to this, Fantasia is a masterpiece.
Salah returns from the United States after his father's death to gain his inheritance and to sell his properties, which includes a football club. Directed by Yasser Samy, starring Ahmed Hatem, Tara Emad, and Eyad Nassar.
El Misterio del Padre Pío incluye imágenes, voz, testimonios y documentos inéditos y una estructura de thriller, con revelaciones asombrosas sobre las campañas contra el Padre Pío y el espionaje al que fue sometido en el confesonario. El equipo de rodaje pasó varias semanas en San Giovanni Rotondo con acceso …
The story of a Guatemalan brother and sister who enter the United States through four miles of abandoned sewer, and with far more melodramatic a motivation than is needed to mobilize most illegals: their father machine-gunned and beheaded, their mother imprisoned, the brother pursued by the militia for a self-defense …
Romantic comedy from Mexico. Telenovela, anyone?
When a private family event gets leaked on social media, Ibrahim Al Ruby decides to live in a village with his wife and children, far from people and the pressure of modern life. After his younger brother, Ihab, convinces Ibrahim to go back to the city for some important paperwork, …
December-December romance between a withdrawn new widower and his blithe and spirited neighbor, still nursing a lifelong dream to visit the Trevi Fountain and re-enact the Dolce Vita scene involving Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni. (She, an Argentine, lives in Madrid, a short enough hop to Rome.) Pretty mushy but …
Victor Erice's second feature film was a long time coming: ten years after Spirit of the Beehive. High in quality but medium-low in excitement, it is again a discreetly interior drama, with again some interest in the insatiable sponge of a child's curiosity, and again some interest in the enchantments …
Alejandro Jodorowsky's name-making cult item, with a legend-toned Quest story and a hero (Jodorowsky himself) who begins as an Italian-western figure in black leather and ends as a shaven-headed anchorite. It's a mess of symbols and religiosity and Arrabalian surrealism and Peckinpahian violence, and the worst it can do is …
Manolo Carlo writes and directs this story of a woman whose husband goes out for smokes and never comes back. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Star-crossed lovers, a circus funambulist and an army deserter, tread through an amorphous ooze of summer colors and Impressionist lighting effects while savoring their meager allotment of bliss. Outdoor scenes alternate with indoor scenes, tick-tock-tick-tock, and you drift into a stupor in less than twenty minutes. Pia Degermark and Thommy …
Vehicle for the décolleté horror-film hostess on Los Angeles television, a sort of cross between Vampira and Mae West (and maybe Joan Jett), with a broad streak of self-derision and, after all, a lot about herself to deride. It was unclear beforehand what she had ever done to deserve such …
Not the feature-length montage generally associated with Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, The Great Gatsby), nor is it a patch on the Kurt Russell, John Carpenter TV biopic from 1979. Austin Butler reported to work on time and fit the costumes, but for all impractical purposes, they might just as well …
Elvis Presley's first network television special is given the big screen treatment.