The New York Times – Film:
The prolific French director François Ozon puts a metatextual spin on “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,” the classic German tale of amour fou.
Author: Beatrice Loayza
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‘Private Desert’ Review: Into the Valley of Repression
The New York Times – Film:
This L.G.B.T.Q. drama from Brazil follows a distraught police academy instructor with a history of violence as he searches for his mysterious online girlfriend.
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‘Three Minutes: A Lengthening’ Review: A Ghost Story
The New York Times – Film:
Using footage from a three-minute amateur movie shot in 1938, this rousing documentary about a Jewish town in Poland is a haunting meditation on the memory of the Holocaust.
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‘Summering’ Review: The Besties Confront Bittersweet Truths
The New York Times – Film:
This meditative coming-of-age movie by James Ponsoldt tracks the emotional upheavals of four 11-year-old girls who stumble upon a corpse.
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‘Bliss’ Review: Working Girls
The New York Times – Film:
Two sex workers fall in love in this low-key L.G.B.T.Q. drama from Germany.
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‘Medusa’ Review: Liberated Women
The New York Times – Film:
This neon-soaked feminist thriller takes aim at Brazil’s evangelical communities by depicting a girl gang that targets sinners.
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‘My Donkey, My Lover & I’ Review: Three’s a Crowd
The New York Times – Film:
In this idiosyncratic comedy from France, a besotted schoolteacher crashes her married lover’s hiking trip and befriends a deeply opinionated donkey.
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‘Earwig’ Review: Danse Macabre
The New York Times – Film:
The latest trip down the rabbit hole by the French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic follows a young girl with teeth made of ice and her cadaverous caretaker.
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‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ Review: High Fashion for the Humble
The New York Times – Film:
This inspirational comedy starring Leslie Manville and Isabelle Huppert trades in a similar kind of British coziness as the “Paddington” movies, though it’s not nearly as effective.