Daisies gets a superb 4K restoration and plenty of contextual bonus materials from Criterion.
At the Tiradentes film festival, a major artistic shakeup takes place that reflects Brazil’s contemporary zeitgeist.
We Are the Flesh evokes human desire, unfettered by social mores, as the supreme expression of all the world’s evil.
Bi Gan’s film is a soulful depiction of China’s increasingly rapid pace of cultural and economic transformation.
Clément Cogitore understands that there’s nothing more frightening or darker than the human mind.
By setting up two temporalities, Karolina Bielawska sets up a dramatic tension that extends beyond the sex change, yet is intricately connected to it.
It’s a carefully measured and satisfying, albeit occasionally tone-deaf, suite of fleeting, dispersed impressions.
With a few painterly strokes, Polak’s camera powerfully evokes the central dump’s hellish dimension.
Eduardo Williams’s I Forgot at first appears to be a fairly observational documentary about youth.
Walerian Borowczyk is at his most radiant when he combines unspeakable dread with a gallows humor, or with formal inventiveness.
Neighbors is so intricately composed that one might sometimes forget that this a film and not a moving painting.
Much like the surrealists, Walerian Borowczyk mines the sexual terrain for what it reveals about human inventiveness, as well as our fears and follies.
Nathan Silver captures the young-adult experience, particularly the agony of first sexual pangs, in films that deftly mix beguilement and repulsion.
Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Second Game is a fine example of an impulse toward meta-narrative that has recently reinvigorated the nonfiction form.
The film becomes akin to variations on a theme, executed with visual finesse, and enhanced by its many rich textures.
Whereas female sexuality was borderline vampiric in Antichrist, this time we’re in more ambiguous, contextually richer terrain.
Papusza gets a bit caught between its ethnographic aspirations, painting a people in thick brushstrokes that are rich on lore.
One doesn’t have to be a visual arts fan to appreciate the easy charm of Marcin Latałło’s Behind the Poster.
Camouflage is a precisely modulated satire whose abrasive edges continually test our discomfort.
A Woman Alone raises questions about citizenship in its deepest sense, exposing its limitations.