Tag: Sacha Polak
Silver Haze | Review
Keeper of the Flame: Polak Reckons with Reconciliation vs. Retribution in Conventional Drama
Dutch director Sacha Polak continues to explore the difficulties of acceptance and...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #70. Sacha Polak’s Silver Haze
Silver Haze
For her fourth feature film, Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak appears to be moving into an area that blurs the lines - promising "a...
2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part II) Schanelec, Akin, Polak & Maria Schrader
With Michael Grandage's My Policeman now being confirmed as a non-Venice title (it was just been announced as a World Premiere selection) we now...
Interview: Sacha Polak – Dirty God
Dutch director Sacha Polak has blossomed into a perceptively humanist filmmaker with her third feature - and first in English - Dirty God. In...
Dirty God | Review
A Woman’s Face: Polak’s Tender Melodrama Explores Struggle for Self-Love
With her third narrative feature, Dirty God, which also stands as her English language debut,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #127. Dirty God – Sacha Polak
Dirty God
Dutch director Sacha Polak embarks on another harrowing experience with third feature, Dirty God (which commenced filming at the beginning of 2018). Produced...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: Picks 100 to 6
While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February...
Hemel | DVD Review
Playing sort of like the female version of Steve McQueen’s Shame comes Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak’s film debut, Hemel, a provocative and, more significantly,...