A urologist and her gay male nurse are non-committal in their pursuit of relationships with others, but their array of experiences challenges their worldviews on love, sex and the โmoralityโ of values, in this outstanding middle entry of Haugerudโs loose thematic ‘Oslo’ trilogy.ย
Serraโs unflinching, observational documentary plants its camera with sniper-like focus on the bloody ritual of bullfighting, as static long takes and dynamic close-ups capture a lonely matador risking his life, afternoon after afternoon, to end another.
Half-baked with its ideas, Sorrentinoโs polished and aesthetically pleasing anti-myth canโt seem to find a compelling story out of the โmythologyโ of Parthenope, as a young woman pursues intellectualism instead of leveraging on her seductive beauty.
The unsaid and the silences ring deafeningly in this Brazilian drama set in an island community, where generations of women have endured sexual abuse and exploitation, but one maturing teenager becomes cognizant of her fate.
Two female teens hope to seek better opportunities in the body-violating world of modelling in this raw if measured Locarno Golden Leopard winner with strong echoes of Ulrich Seidl and Andrea Arnold.
Leighโs bleak family drama catches us in an emotional no manโs land, accompanied by a committed performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who plays an incredibly noxious mother who hates people and is in deep pain.
The lives of six Romanians intersect days before the momentous fall of Communist dictator Ceauศescu, as this ambitious debut feature with a terrific climax shows us what itโs like to live in a totalitarian country, oblivious to the winds of change just around the corner.
More political than it appears to be, Soraโs first narrative feature explores the punitive impact of heightened school surveillance as several students rebel against oppression in an increasingly destabilised Japanese society.
Wang draws intimate links between the Chinese and their land post-1949 Chinese Civil War in this reflective and dreamlike work from the perspective of a boy who longs for a water toy gun from his late grandfather.
Guadagninoโs intoxicating adaptation of William S. Burroughsโ novella about the sensual connection between two men exudes profound feelings that coalesce and ache the body, mind and soul, boasting what could be a career-best performance by Daniel Craig.
Eternality Tan 