2011-2020

  • Emmanuel Mouret – Caprice (2015)

    2011-2020ComedyEmmanuel MouretFranceRomance

    Quote:
    Perhaps what’s most refreshing about actor/writer/director Emmanuel Mouret’s latest effort Caprice is how equally unlikely it presents the maddening scenario of a nebbish male romantic lead courted aggressively by two incredibly attractive women. A lighter, Gallic equivalent of the type of masculine steered ménage a trois we’ve grown accustomed from Woody Allen, this treatment manages to feel equally effortless but not entirely effervescent. A series of coincidences sets off a sexual comedy of errors involving a quartet of enjoyable performers, though all is eventually for naught since none of them are exactly likeable, a problem considering they’re trapped in a romantic comedy paradigm necessitating we grow interested or even attached to at least one of their outcomes.Read More »

  • Ali Ahmadzade – Madar-e ghalb atomi AKA Atomic Heart Mother (2015)

    2011-2020Ali AhmadzadeDramaFantasyIran

    On their way back from a wild party, Arineh and Nobahar cause a car accident. A mysterious stranger by the name of Toofan offers to cover the costs. This won’t be the last time they’ll cross his path over the course of the night. Cars form a popular setting in Iranian cinema. They move through the public sphere, yet their occupants remain among themselves. But what happens if a policeman suddenly gets into your vehicle, finds black market DVDs and forces you to admit, tipsily, that Argo is a film hostile to Iran? This road movie through Tehran by night begins as a hyperactive, drugged-up farce that pokes fun at the authorities, interprets the cultural history of Western toilets, and postulates other daring intercultural theories. Yet gradually the atmosphere changes and tension steadily rises in the car, thanks to Toofan, who keeps appearing again and again out of the blue. He plays a diabolical game with the two friends, one that crosses the boundaries into the metaphysical realm. As fanciful and spooky as the plot may seem, it is clearly anchored in Iran’s present.Read More »

  • Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky – Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)

    USA2011-2020Bruce SinofskyCrimeDocumentaryJoe Berlinger

    A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas and spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released because DNA evidence proved their innocence.Read More »

  • Giacomo Gatti – Palladio (2019)

    2011-2020DocumentaryGiacomo GattiItaly

    Introduction
    It left Italy with the United Nations World Cultural Heritage complex “Vicenza Ancient City and Veneto Country House”, and wrote the immortal “Four Books of Architecture”, the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (Andrea Palladio) Rewrite the history of world architecture. In later generations, landmarks such as the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and the Wall Street Stock Exchange, which were far away across the ocean, all followed the architectural style pioneered by Palladian. In 2010, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution and respected him as the “Father of American Architecture.” .Read More »

  • Saodat Ismailova – Chilla AKA 40 Days of Silence (2014)

    2011-2020DramaSaodat IsmailovaUzbekistan

    Synopsis:
    Bibicha a young woman conceals herself in a vow of silence in the house of her grandmother Khanjarmomo, who lives with her illegitimate granddaughter Sharifa. Khanjarmomo doubts Bibicha reasons. Is she vowing for the return of her beloved mysteriously disappeared? Or is she hiding an illicit pregnancy?

    During her vow, Bibicha is challenged by the sudden arrival of Khamida, the mother of Sharifa, who comes back to the village after years of absence. Bibicha sees in Khamida her possible future. This encounter brings back to live the past and future of this family of women whose destinies seem to repeat from generation to generation in an emotional curse.Read More »

  • Woody Allen – Rifkin’s Festival (2020)

    Woody Allen2011-2020ComedyUSA

    The story centers on a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival and get caught up in the magic of the event, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.Read More »

  • Ingrid Jungermann – Women Who Kill (2016)

    USA2011-2020ComedyCrimeIngrid Jungermann

    Commitment phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean, locally famous true crime podcasters, suspect Morgan’s new love interest is a murderer.Read More »

  • Xaver Böhm – O Beautiful Night (2019)

    2011-2020ComedyCrimeGermanyXaver Böhm

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    Yuri is a young musician. He is very afraid of death. For this reason, he hardly leaves his apartment. One day he meets a mysterious man who claims to be death. He takes him on an extraordinary journey.Read More »

  • Mariano Llinás – La Flor (2018)

    Drama2011-2020ArgentinaArthouseMariano Llinás

    A decade in the making, Mariano Llinás’s La Flor is an unrepeatable labor of love and madness that redefines the concept of binge viewing. The director himself shows up at the start to preview the six episodes that await, each starring the same four remarkable actresses: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes. Overflowing with nested subplots and whiplash digressions, La Flor shape-shifts from a B-movie to a musical to a spy thriller to a category-defying metafiction—all of them without endings—to a remake of a very well-known French classic and, finally, to an enigmatic period piece that lacks a beginning (granted, all notions of beginnings and endings become fuzzy after 14 hours). An adventure in scale and duration, La Flor is a wildly entertaining exploration of the possibilities of fiction that lands somewhere close to its outer limits.Read More »

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