The New York Times – Film:
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, this decadent drama about a beautiful young woman is a one-sided meditation on art, desire and spirituality.
Author: Beatrice Loayza
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‘Night Call’ Review: Belgian Brawlers
The New York Times – Film:
An ordinary locksmith undergoes an action-hero transformation in this snappy thriller set in Brussels during the height of the Black Lives Matter protests.
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‘A Prince’ Review: Let New Passions Bloom
The New York Times – Film:
Sex, death and domination fuel this beautifully enigmatic pastoral drama from France, which presents the gay coming-of-age of an apprentice gardener.
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‘Slow’ Review: We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off
The New York Times – Film:
The second feature by the Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradze asks what a relationship looks like when you factor out the sex.
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‘Omen’ Review: Life in a Different Space-Time Continuum
The New York Times – Film:
This trippy ensemble drama set in Kinshasa explores Congolese society through magical realism.
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‘The Beast’ Review: Master of Puppets
The New York Times – Film:
Bertrand Bonello’s latest film, starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay as lovers in three different eras, is an audacious sci-fi romance.
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‘On the Adamant’ Review: A Psychiatric Facility on the Seine
The New York Times – Film:
This documentary by Nicolas Philibert drifts along, with unnamed patients and their caretakers, on a large houseboat in Paris.
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‘Femme’ Review: Bad Lovers
The New York Times – Film:
In this white-knuckle thriller set in London, a drag performer seduces his attacker, an intensely closeted hustler played by George MacKay.