Tag: Cristina Gallego
Interview: Laura Mora – The Kings Of The World (Los reyes del mundo)
In anticipation of the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I chatted with Laura Mora, whose latest film The Kings of the World is Colombia’s official...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #86. Laura Mora’s Los Reyes del Mundo
Los Reyes del Mundo
Among the bright spots in contemporary Colombian cinema, Laura Mora moved into her third feature film this past autumn. With a...
Waiting for the Barbarians | Review
Enemy at the Gate: Guerra Heads to the International Frontier with Flat Coetzee Adaptation
The richness and heft of Ciro Guerra’s cinema gets lost somehow...
Video: Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra’s Birds of Passage | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
They tend to always begin with a strong section opening film, and Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra's Birds of Passage (review) did not disappoint as...
Birds of Passage | Review
Wayuu of the Gun: Greed’s No Good in Guerra & Gallego’s Ganja Saga
Crime doesn’t pay, at least not for the indigenous Wayuu people in...
2018 Cannes: Ciro Guerra, Gaspar Noé, Romain Gavras, Jaime Rosales & Debra Granik Fill Directors’ Fortnight
Heavy on Spanish language films (including a Brazilian film not in its mother tongue) and the usual block of French film items, after seven years...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions I: North & South America
As we near the announcement of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s program next month (April 12th for Cannes, 16th for Critics' Week and possibly...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #71. Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallegos’ Birds of Passage
Birds of Passage
Columbian director Ciro Guerra unveiled one of 2015’s best titles with his third film Embrace of the Serpent (read review), an Amazonian, post-colonial...