Tag: Nicolas Becker
Interview: Mihai Mincan – Milk Teeth (Dinți de lapte)
Fusing a country's psychological rift and political shift alongside a truly complex character study that explores innocence loss, absence and community disillusionment, in Milk...
Milk Teeth | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review
No Child Left Behind: Mincan Explores a Nation That Stood in Silence
Perhaps more terrifying than the high-seas stowaway trip from hell (2022’s To the North),...
Harvest | Review
Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Tsangari’s Monotonous Treatise on Modernization
Adapted from a novel by Jim Croce, Harvest is Greek auteur Athina Rachel Tsangari's third feature narrative,...
Dahomey | Review
Plunder Years: Diop Reflects on the Complex Realities of Reparation
The spirit of Ozymandias, the classic poem from Percy Bysshe Shelley, might rouse itself in...
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Review
The Unexpected Virtue of Indulgence: Iñárritu Repeats Himself with Repetitive, Soulless Extravaganza
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple,” said Oscar...
A Prayer Before Dawn | Review
Break the Dawn: Sauvaire Browbeats with Violent, Grim Prison Drama
Although a simple plot synopsis tends to glorify the perilous pugilism which provides the bizarre...
Maria Monge’s Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Where Maria Monge's Treat Me Like Fire excels is in abiding by a frenetic fuelled street film that is more steeped in fantasy, than...
