Tag: Fernando Epstein
Divine Love | Review
Mighty Aphrodite: Mascaro’s Second Coming Cloaked in Complex Allegory
The Immaculate Conception remains one of the notorious suspensions of disbelief in Christian folklore, and Brazilian...
The Moneychanger | 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Money Ain’t for Nothin’: Veiroj Turns to Political Period Caper
A common saying in Montevideo, Uruguay, meant to succinctly condense the city’s appeal and cement...
Monos | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
Monkey See Monkey Do: Landes’ Latest a Moody, Hermetic Portrait of Guerilla Warfare
Brazil’s Alejandro Landes concocts a moody, textured exercise on child soldiers and...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #93. Monos – Alejandro Landes
Monos
Alejandro Landes’ sophomore feature, kidnap thriller Monos, features an international cast as a Colombian-Argentinean-Uruguayan-Dutch-German co-production (produced out of each country’s respective financiers from La...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #54. Alejandro Landes – Monos
Alejandro Landes flagged the Sundance folks early in his career, premiering his directorial debut in the docu Cocalero way back in 2007 prior to being...