Body of Glass: Knots and Ties
Immediately after Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Pedro Almodóvar released Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! in…
Sightlines
Cinema for a Cause and the Cause of Cinema: 10 points on NAZA
Much has already been written about NAZA, by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, a film that has become…
The World Is a Less-Than-Ideal Place for a Girl to Grow Up
Kamila Serwicka’s Blossoming and Camille Bildsøe’s If Luck Will Come approach growing up under oppression from opposite sides of the…
Why The Critics Give Us Hope for the Future of Cinema
No, this is not some shameless exercise in self-congratulation on behalf of the critic’s profession. Critics play an indispensable role…
The Ungrateful Tenant vs. Snapshot: Playing with the Classics
Two films from distant parts of the world pay tribute to cinema’s own history, reviving languages or formats from the…
Mandrakizay Doria: A Quest for Seduction Across Time
With Mandrakizay Doria (À tout jamais) (2026), Malagasy filmmaker Franco Clerc makes an ambitious feature debut that combines romance, fantasy…
At Night: Making Room for the Other in the Paris Underground
I must confess that I usually take against films that adopt a pamphleteering style and wear their ideology too openly,…
It Takes a Whole Neighbourhood to Make a Film… and an Alligator
In few cases has the decision to live according to an idea of cinema found such explicit expression as it…
Brave New Love: An Essay on Infidelity
If Los Días Libres can be understood as a pre-feminist film, even though gender is addressed in an extremely discreet…
Destroy All Girls: A Feel-Good Movie with a Pebble in Its Shoe
By way of a disclaimer, Destroy All Girls is an almost clandestine slogan used by Senate, a skate brand that…