Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Tsai seems to say that, even in a world rigged against queerness, certain things can’t still be shared.
The film questions the fixed nature of human behavior in a world whose borders are constantly shifting.
The film is an unending source for the worst possible clichés and most overdone series of graphic matches in the history of film editing.
Abel Ferrara doesn’t require traditional dream logic, as his grasp of the nitty-gritty quotidian of longing is inherently uncanny.
Camera, character, and cameraperson are one throughout, and the effect is exquisitely suffocating.
Fortunately for the film, Carlo Mirabella-Davis continually springs scenes that either transcend or justify his preaching.
Porumboiu discusses the links between his latest and Police, Adjective, the so-called “Romanian New Wave,” and more.
This lively adaptation plays up the novel’s more farcical elements, granting it a snappy, rhythmic pace.
The film suffers from the same issue as its moody androids: enervation borne out of repetition.
It all has the makings of a game of Clue, but the mysteries here are linguistic.
The thrill of the film’s craftsmanship is inseparable from its main character’s abuse.
The humor might have been tolerable if the film was at least reasonably imaginative.
The film is designed so that we feel as starved for rudimentary human emotion as its main character.
Wendy veers awkwardly and aimlessly between tragedy and jubilance, never accruing any lasting emotional impact.
Garrel illustrates the absurdity behind the myth of the complementary couple without humor or wit.
The film takes occasional stabs at comic grotesquerie, but it’s brought back to earth by an insistent docudrama seriousness.
It has almost enough genuine charm and heart to compensate for the moments that feel forced.
What distinguishes the film from much of its ilk is Albert Shin’s ongoing taste for peculiar and unsettling details.
While Onward begins as a story of bereavement, it soon turns to celebrating the payoffs of positive thinking.
It’s to the immense credit of these two great actors that Ordinary Love is so inspiring.