Tag: Ardavan Safaee
The Unknown (L’Inconnue) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
She Who Is Not: Harari Explores Existential Identity Issues in the Body Swap
“A woman, for me, must remain a woman,” stated Andrey Tarkovsky when...
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...
