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Dreams | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Magnificent Obsession: Franco Finds Love is a Hopeless Place
Michel Franco lassos Jessica Chastain into his continued class conflict examinations in Dreams, an intimate portrait...
Cheating Death: Michel Franco’s ‘Dreams’ Set for 2025 Major Film Fest Premiere
Despite having gone into production in the summer of 2023 (in Mexico City and San Francisco), Dreams was not a film that Michel Franco...
Interview: Michel Franco – Memory
Unwaveringly dedicated to a cinema of provocation, even if it may appear excessive to more sensitive viewers, auds at the Venice (and Toronto) Film...
Chicano Trouble: Fernando Eimbcke Taps into Youth Portrait with “Olmo”
Duck Season (2004), Lake Tahoe (2008) and Club Sandwich (2013) Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke is set to move further up the border with his...
San Francisco Treat: Michel Franco Dreams of the West Coast with “Dos Lados”
Location, Location, Location. After the affluent neighbourhood somewhere in Mexico with New Order, the wasteland of Acapulco with Sundown and more recently, the New...
Interview: David Zonana – Heroic
In his sophomore feature, David Zonana plunges into the dark underpinnings that propel military college-type institutions in Mexico (not much different around the world)...
Sundown | Review
Slaughter House Rules: Franco Continues with Cinema of Distress
The English playwright Robert Bolt wrote “Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.”...
New Order | Review
How Does It Feel, To Treat Me Like You Do?: Franco Flies Into Traumas of Totalitarianism
It’s a sign of the times, wherein an apocalyptic...
