Tag: Ardavan Safaee

Parthenope | Review

The Boring & Beautiful: Sorrentino’s Tone Deaf Portrait of a Lady It’s unfortunate no one’s as likely to be infatuated with the eponymous Parthenope (pronounced...

Limonov: The Ballad | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

Wild at Heart: Serebrennikov Oversimplifies Odyssey of Soviet Dissident If one were to dilute a Molotov cocktail enough to make its destructive capabilities null and...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #50. Just Philippot’s Eau-forte

Eau-forte Breaking onto the scene in the thick of the pandemic with 2020's The Swarm (Critics' Week selection), Just Philippot continues to find inspiration in...

L’immensità | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

This Boy’s Life: Crialese Cuts Corners in Well-Meant Trans Coming-of-Age Drama Director Emanuele Crialese explores the slow disintegration of a dysfunctional family in 1970s Rome...

Albatros (Drift Away) | 2021 Berlin International Film Festival Review

Bye Bye Birdie: Beauvois Bears Burdens in Old-Fashioned Melodrama The albatross, a large white seabird with a significant wingspan, has been a symbol of a...

The Golden Glove | Review

No Glove No Love: Akin Revels in Garish Grotesqueries with Squalid Period Piece Turkish-German director Fatih Akin resurrects the obscure German serial killer Fritz Honka...

Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review

Dancing…Yeah: Kechiche Spins Like a Record Round in Vacuous Sequel The French-Tunisian director who won the 2013 Palme d’Or for Blue is the Warmest Color...

Video: Diane Kruger for In the Fade | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actress

The consensus thinking was a great performance in a mediocre Fatih Akin film, Diane Kruger's first role in her native German language in In...

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