This precise drama by one of Poland’s foremost female directors is wryly comic if also conceptually peculiar as it explores grief and the afterlife against a father-and-daughter narrative.
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This precise drama by one of Poland’s foremost female directors is wryly comic if also conceptually peculiar as it explores grief and the afterlife against a father-and-daughter narrative.
Cinema can be the raison d’être for many of us, but this illuminating Sudanese documentary shows us that it can also be a marker of a lifetime of despair.
Satyajit Ray’s only Hindi film is an engrossing treatment of how the pleasures of chess can take on political and symbolic significance.
One of Coppola’s weakest efforts in what is a heavy-handed and muddling mess of a film, despite the good performance by Tim Roth.
Good but not great, this final film of the ‘Godfather’ trilogy should still please the more generous fans.
This is indisputably one of the absolute finest war films in the history of cinema.
At times jaw-droppingly hilarious, Elia Suleiman’s absurdist work here rightfully makes light of the fractured Israeli-Palestinian relations through a series of increasingly outlandish scenarios.
Costa-Gavras paints a desolate and powerful political picture of an innocent high-ranking communist party official being interrogated and tortured in service of the frightening if absurd Soviet bloc show trials of the 1950s.
This fourth ‘Zatoichi’ movie sees loyalties put to the test and swordfighting action on a larger scale.