Eivind Landsvik enters feature filmmaking in a near whisper with Low Expectations, a patient anatomy of psychological deceleration. The film...

The Canadian documentary community often keeps a cold, principled distance from mainstream cinematic grammar. Amalie Atkins places her feature, Agatha’s...

Nine years after her stark examination of frontier friction in Western (2017), German director Valeska Grisebach returns to the outer...

The year is 1982, a cultural hinge where the polished artificiality of a new decade collides with the ruined grandeur...

The nineteenth-century sun presses hard on Seville, Spain, and director Sébastien Laudenbach lets that heat warp the frame into a...

The provincial hush of Lisieux, Normandy, gives Goodbye Cruel World its severe, deceptively placid frame. Félix de Givry’s feature directorial...

Bruno Dumont is the kind of filmmaker who treats audience expectation as a personal affront. His debut, The Life of...

French cinema has rarely been eager to sit with its collaborators. The heroic narrative of the Resistance is tidier, more...

The widescreen image begins inside a chilled, vacant domestic interior. Minotaur, a psychological thriller from director Andrey Zvyagintsev, co-writer Simon...

Clio Barnard has made a career of finding the philosophical inside the municipal. Her Birmingham, like the city itself, is...