Tag: Foreign
Both Sides of the Blade Has Good Performances But Still Feels Slightly Disappointing
“When you love someone it never really goes away.” Another collaboration between director Claire Denis and Juliette Binochet, with 2021 sensation Titane’s Vincent Lindon added to the mix, sounds enticing enough for any film fanatic to give a…
Read More »Petite Maman: If You Could Ask Your Young Mother a Question, What Would It Be? (Toronto International Film Festival)
The relationship between parent and child can be a roller coaster, particularly during a child’s formative years when their emotions are strong but their life experience is thin. Throughout our young lives there are moments where we all…
Read More »Titane: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Strained relationships with loved ones can create a hole in one’s psyche that is tough to fill. People with damaged relationships with a parent for example may often find themselves trying to replicate a facsimile of it with…
Read More »The Life Ahead Is a Sweet Tale of Childhood Trauma and the Healing Power of Empathy
The plight of African migrants trying to reach the shores of Italy for a chance at a better life is well-documented. Often exiled or sometimes just left to float at sea in lieu of refuge, the long-term effects…
Read More »Sputnik Uses the Sci-Fi Classics Before It to Examine Human Emotion
Since Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking, legendary sci-film Alien was released in 1979, tales of alien life forms seeking unsuspecting human space explorers to use as living hosts have been ubiquitous in the genre to the point of becoming rote…
Read More »The Truth is I’m Largely Disappointed
Perspective is a tricky thing, from one vantage point, an image or a memory is recalled to be one way while another person looking at the same image or looking back at the same moment, will have an…
Read More »The Audition Touches on Interesting Concepts but Fails to Grasp
Parent-child relationships are often fraught and hard to navigate. Parents often want what’s best for their child, but can often confuse that wish for their own hopes and desires. The Audition follows one such relationship. Anna Bronsky (Nina…
Read More »True History of the Miseducation of Ned Kelly
It’s no secret that our experiences as children play a pivotal role in who we eventually become as adults. Growing up in a well-adjusted home with attentive, caring parents can set a child off on a path toward…
Read More »In Incitement, a View of How Young Men Become Radicalized
As social upheaval continues to spread worldwide and populist movements lurch further rightward, teetering toward violence, one of the questions many sociopolitical analysts are pondering is what motivates people, young men in particular, to become radicalized? The advent…
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A Hero Masterfully Paints a Frustratingly True to Life Portrait of a Cynical World (Middleburg Film Festival)
Societal distrust feels as though it’s as high as it’s ever been. People analyze their neighbors in bad faith, believing the worst of them and their intentions while social media and the fourth estate itself follow suit, looking…
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