Film Review: The Square (2017)
Christian (Claes Bang) is a top curator at a renowned contemporary art museum in Stockholm. He’s handsome, well-groomed, charming, intelligent and articulate. From this…
Irréversible
Film Review: Elle (2016)
Thank you Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Showgirls, Hollow Man) for your eclectic and schizophrenic filmography. It appears you have done it again with Elle. This…
Film Review: Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Set in the dense Amazon rainforest is Colombia’s entry for Best Foreign Film at last year’s Academy Awards, Embrace of the Serpent. Based on…
Film Review: Love (2015)
Love is the latest film from director Gaspar Noe, famous (or infamous?) for Irréversible (2002) and Enter the Void (2009). Love features explicit, non-simulated…
Film Review: They Have Escaped (2014)
In Finnish film They Have Escaped, director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Pilvi Peltola, offers a dark and unsettling look into…
MIFF 2013: Death For Sale (2011)
The audience knows where the film is headed long before it gets there, very much like watching a trail slowly derail. As the title indicates, Death For Sale doesn’t provide any happy endings. These men are a product of their society, which unfortunately doesn’t elevate them to fulfil any kind of potential.