This layered Cannes Palme d’Or-winning work, part courtroom drama, part marital exposé about the mysterious circumstances surrounding a death is Justine Triet’s most complex picture to date.
A great Spanish film about childhood, death and painful memories, featuring an exceptional performance by the bright-eyed if soulful Ana Torrent, with director Saura deftly navigating different planes of temporal and psychological realities.
Suzuki’s dynamic if provocative work here tells of the sexual politics of flesh and humiliation, set in postwar Japan under American control.
Wenders’ new film sees him return to Japan for a contemplative take on the human experience in modern society, following the daily routine of a cultured toilet cleaner who is obsessed with collecting cassette tapes of American oldies.
A triple-crossing crime actioner from master studio craftsman Suzuki that sharpened the critical focus on his thrilling devil-may-care filmmaking style.
A popular singer anxiously waits for her medical test results in this charming yet reflective drama that remains one of Varda’s best-known works from the French New Wave era.
An extraordinary silent feature from Brazil set to a playlist of classical music, so unique, enigmatic and dreamlike that it still carves out new, profound possibilities for cinema.
A vibey Moroccan music documentary about the popular group Nass-El Ghiwane that is a mix of invigorating performances, behind-the-scenes, and colonial history.
A significant work of the Cinema Novo movement, one that dared to challenge the legitimacy of politics and religion as a poor farmer tries to seek salvation after killing his exploitative employer.
It does sometimes feel too stretched out with Kurosawa milking sentimentality out of its melancholy postwar drama, but the compelling characters take us somewhere meaningful as we ponder about what it means to be poor but in love.
Eternality Tan 