
In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
Today and Tomorrow (2003) Alejandro Chomski, Antonella Costa, Carlos Lipsic, Romina Ricci, Drama

At 24, Paula wants to be an actress, but if she doesn’t find her rent money she’ll be homeless in 24 hours. Read More »
Nine Queens (2000) Fabián Bielinsky, Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice, María Mercedes Villagra, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Early one morning, Marcos observes Juan successfully pulling off a bill-changing scam on a cashier, and then getting caught as he attempts to pull the same trick on the next shift. Read More »
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001) Martina Kudlácek, Miriam Arsham, Stan Brakhage, Chao Li Chi, Documentary, Biography

Using footage from filmmaker Maya Deren’s avant-garde films of the 1940s Read More »
Year by the Sea (2016) Alexander Janko, Karen Allen, Yannick Bisson, Celia Imrie, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free. Read More »
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017) Yûya Ishii, Mikako Ichikawa, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Shizuka Ishibashi, Drama

Newcomer Shizuka Ishibashi throws herself into the role of Mika, a nurse by day, a ‘girlie bar’ hostess by night, subject to feelings of anxiety and isolation Read More »
The Outside Man (1972) Jacques Deray, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. Read More »
Brief Crossing (2001) Catherine Breillat, Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain, Marc Filipi, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
Memory of the Camps (2014) Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Jasper Britton, Adolf Hitler, Sidney Bernstein, Documentary

On 29 September 1945, the incomplete rough-cut of a disturbing yet compelling documentary revealing the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps Read More »