“My eyes are imprisoned/ Weeping with great longing”. Soèdade (saudade) — “longing” or “yearning” — is a Portuguese word that does not have a precise translation in English. It has been described as a “…vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist…”Read More »
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Inspired by legendary painter and writer François Augiéras, a soldier – who believes he is Augiéras – searches for a series of spiritual murals supposedly made by the painter in an abandoned bunker. The renowned Spanish painter and ceramicist Miquel Barcelo (playing himself), whose recent work is inspired by Augiéras, soon joins in the search as well. The film’s numerous doublings, conundrums, and sexual innuendos reflect Augiéras’s innovative art and troubled life: “The best way to escape from your pursuers without leaving any trail is to walk backwards over your own footsteps.”Read More »
A rookie cop takes on a veteran escape driver in a death defying final showdown on the streets of Hong Kong.Read More »
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I ORIGINS, the second feature film from writer and director Mike Cahill, tells the story of Dr. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt), a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner Karen (Brit Marling), they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.Read More »
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Through his video installations, Omer Fast has focused on the recreation of all kinds of existing footage in order to suggest the power and limitations of art to interpret memory and history. So it’s fitting that his first fiction feature is an adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s 2005 novel Remainder, which revolves around an unnamed Londoner who becomes obsessed with reconstructing events from the past he barely remembers. The film, which proffers a Memento-like mystery with a twist seemingly out of Synecdoche, New York, is Fast’s depiction of a man’s war against the fog of his traumatized mind.Read More »
Nicolás Zukerfeld’s feature is a wry, surprising work of filmmaking-as-criticism that traces a mysterious and amusing arc across the vast oeuvre of pantheon auteur Raoul Walsh, before suddenly reinventing itself as an essayistic investigation into memory, cinema, and their shared mutability.Read More »
The story of Chen Si, a man who patrols the Yangtze River Bridge in China saving people who try to commit suicide.Read More »
After nine years of preparation and five and a half days of shooting, the film was immediately banned and apart from a few secret screenings, it spent several years in a box. Nevertheless, there are not many films that can be said to have changed history the way this one did. By allowing the people in the movie to talk, the director gave them a chance to start the rehabilitation of the tortured, humiliated village. The film’s cameraman and the lawyer who asked for a reopening of the case in 1988, ultimately succeeding in the villagers’’ acquittal, will also participate in the discussion.Read More »
A successful fashion editor realizes she has romantic feelings for her childhood best friend when he invites her to his lavish London wedding.Read More »