The best word to describe Unrest is "clever." It isn't on the level of the artisans and thinkers it lovingly portrays—all the graphers (geo, carto, photo) and ...
What drops of cinema are still to be wrung from boxing? The new Japanese drama Small, Slow But Steady is about as calm and modest as its title suggests, but th...
In Corsage, Vicky Krieps delivers a performance brimming with salty despondency and inner life. Gasping for breath in the garment from which this film takes it...
A recent episode of Amazon's The Boys showed a superhero shrink to the size of an uncooked grain of rice and walk into the shaft of his lover's penis. The epis...
In the world of Gregoris Rentis’ Dogwatch, pirates are the new Godot. The greek filmmaker's feature documentary debut is all about waiting: waiting to leave, t...
If the title of Simon Brückner’s new documentary conjures images of Bavarian beer halls or seedy nights at Kit Kat, don’t get your hopes up. There is an ample ...
It’s the final day of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and Darius Khondji is reminiscing. “The films that inspired me to be a cinematographer,” he explained, dipp...
If Cristian Mungiu isn't the most prolific filmmaker to emerge from Romanian cinema's gilded age, he does tend to cause a stir. Cristi Puiu was first in the do...
For Mia Hansen-Løve, the 2022 Cannes Film Festival marked a few returns. A year on from premiering Bergman Island, Hansen-Løve screened One Fine Morning, the d...
It’s mid-May at the Cannes Film Festival and David Cronenberg is relaxing on the roof of the J.W. Marriot Hotel. Two days earlier, his latest film enjoyed a ra...
Irish-born, Berlin-based, Rory O'Connor has been covering the European film festival circuit since 2012. A regular contributor to The Film Stage, his work has also appeared in Frieze, The Playlist, and CineVue.
