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Interview: João Canijo – Bad Living (Mal Viver)

Taking home the Jury Prize at the 2023 Berlinale, Portuguese auteur João Canijo's latest Bad Living (Mal Viver) is the director's masterpiece, examining the...

Living Bad (Viver Mal) | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review

The Mirror Has Two Faces: Canijo’s Customers Are Always Blight with Inverse Melodrama “Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it...

Bad Living | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review

The Best Exotic Portugal Hotel: Canijo Examines Motherhood as Misanthropy in Masterful Familial Miasma The women handling the specialty boutique hotel in Joao Canijo’s Mal...

Wolf and Dog (Lobo e Cão) | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

Dog Gone: Varejão Explores the Stifling Conditions of Traditions in the Portugal Archipelago Portuguese documentary filmmaker Cláudia Varejão crosses completely into narrative territory with her...

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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’

While she has dropped world premieres at Sundance and...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Dardenne Bros.’ ‘Jeunes mères’

Winner of the Palme d'Or for 1999's Rosetta (which...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Bi Gan’s ‘Resurrection’

An already acclaimed filmmaker in his own right after...