The film is deeply concerned with the salvation found in the meditative power of the arts.
Given all its clumsily executed genre detours and tonal fluctuations, Rebecca Zlutowski’s film suggests an amateur juggling act.
Arnaud des Pallières unsettles the audience’s usual feelings of vicarious blood lust.
The film’s outrageous situations and over-the-top stock characters feel palatable when the visual style is also excessive.
Eleven years after Institute Benjamenta, the Quay Brothers return to the land of the live action.
Catherine Breillat stares down the utter arbitrariness of carnal disgust with Anatomy of Hell.
More than you ever wanted to know about the vagina, which isn’t good enough for Breillat.
Sylvia is a Lifetime bio-pic set in a BBC melodrama’s charcoal gray gloom and squalor.