Passion Imperfect: On Danielle Arbid’s Simple Passion
Midway through Simple Passion (2020) the protagonist, Hélène, played with studied poise by Laetitia Dosch, announces to her lover, “I…
Midway through Simple Passion (2020) the protagonist, Hélène, played with studied poise by Laetitia Dosch, announces to her lover, “I…
“Dreamlike”, “transitory”, “driftily disjointed” – reviewers have used these terms fittingly to describe Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s debut feature, The Cloud…
What might Charlie Kaufman have left to say about himself after writing about himself and his screenwriter ego personified as…
As I write this, the reviews for Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, which premiered earlier this week at the Toronto International Film…
Cao Fei’s ‘Blueprints’ begins in a room decorated to look like a mid-20th century foyer in China: the kind you…
Stanya Kahn’s latest short film ‘No Go Backs’ (2020) opens with two teenage boys pissing into the grassy scrub with…
Autumn, the 17-year-old protagonist of Eliza Hittman’s sophomore film Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), first stands out because of her…