In the midst of the Nguyen Dynasty, a reluctant wife's life takes a dramatic turn when a chance encounter with her childhood lover sparks a series of unexpected events. Many unexpected events completely changed her life. Directed by Victor Vu, starring Kaity Nguyen and Thuan Nguyen.
Eco-horror film -- or in the words of a heedless oil prospector, "some global-warming shit" -- about nature in revolt at the Arctic Circle. A slow first hour, but eventually a few decent special effects on a flagrantly frugal budget. With Ron Perlman, James LeGros, Connie Britton, and Kevin Corrigan; …
Surprising Vin Diesel vehicle: first, for the initial switcheroo from supernatural action-adventure to supernatural whodunit; second, for a sturdily built storyline; third, for a somewhat lively and lighthearted turn from its often somnolent star. (Those widened, puppy-dog eyes!) Sadly, the more expected elements do much to dull the pleasure of …
An exhibitionistic display of phallic symbols (a toy tank and cannon, a sausage, an electric carving knife, etc.) as well as of Gerard Depardieu's real thing. Authentically sexy if one can stomach the sterile, whitish lighting that makes the acres of exposed flesh look like laboratory specimens, and, more importantly, …
What is it about this grab-bag of contrivances, this last word in geezer porn, that attracted the likes of Shirley MacLaine? To set the plot in motion, the newspaper that leisure-class dowager Harriett Lauler (MacLaine) uses to blot up the wine spilled during her botched suicide attempt is conveniently open …
Robbe-Grillet's seductive (or masturbatory) incantations, hypnotically enhanced by a Messiaen-esque organ, drift abstractedly over Resnais's rhythmic images, the mellifluous tracking shots and the jagged cutting, in this eternally beautiful, if no longer fashionable, "puzzle picture," which has to do with powerful (even surrealistic) erotic stirrings in the most frigid, petrified …
A honeymoon couple, a barge captain and a peasant girl, are split apart by their contrary hankerings — his for the timeless romance of the river, hers for the modern romance of the city. This, a more conventionally structured work than Zero for Conduct, is Jean Vigo's second and last …
Tony Gatlif's musical travelogue traces the present-day music of the Gypsies along their historical migratory route from India into Iberia. The music itself (no less than the surrounding scenery) is diverse and engaging, though the cinematic "purity" of the presentation is very sparing of information, even as to such basic …
Two guiltless fugitives (brothers-in-law: the married one's surname is Husband) fall into the sympathetic clutches of Dr. Chilblains, a cryonics crackpot who takes them out of their difficulties by flash-freezing them. They are awakened twenty-nine years later to different difficulties, in 1991. The debatable decision to make both men dimwits …
Cold-eyed, mirthless Israeli comedy centered around a conventional family of Georgian émigrés in Tel Aviv and their impatient attempts to marry off a thirty-one-year-old son. Little problem: he's secretly playing house with an older divorcée. And doing so with extreme biological bluntness. First-time filmmaker Dover Kosashvili is Georgian himself, and …
When Hana (Sasha Luss), a professional gamer who suffers from acute agoraphobia, is asked to trial sophisticated new gaming equipment which uses AI to interpret the electrical activity of her brain, she sees an opportunity to enhance her game. As Hana and her best friend Jen (Alexis Ren) experiment with …
If one were to judge a film by its poster, one would arrive at the theatre with a pocketful of insulin. Mindy Kaling writes and stars and Emma Thompson likes to work.
On the threshold of its 25th anniversary concert, the renowned Fugue String Quartet finds itself on the verge of dissolution, as its members begin to bow under the tension between personal goods and the good of the group (namely, the music that it makes). If the script is occasionally indulgent …
La fine della civiltà è arrivata. Non sappiamo come. Un padre e suo figlio, un ragazzino di quattordici anni, sono tra i pochi superstiti: la loro esistenza, su una palafitta in riva a un lago, è ridotta a lotta per la sopravvivenza. Non c’è più società, ogni incontro con gli …