While Big Little Things is based upon a well-worn queer premise, the execution gives us just enough complexity to stick with it.
Tell Me Things. Tell Me Big Little Things.
Jared Abbott
Editor-at-large Jared loves movies and lives with Kiki in Berlin.
What Belongs to Others Is a Chilling, Enigmatic Character Study
Shot in classic naturalist social realist style, What Belongs to Others is a portrait of a thief with an elusive, convincing performance by Monika Kwiatkowska.
The City of the Living Exhumes a Shocking Roman Death
Subverting the usual expectations of true crime, The City of the Living is noticeable for the amount it focusses on the victim of a notorious Roman murder.
Hats Off to Diane
Un détour par Diane by Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni expertly blurs the boundaries between one woman’s lived experience and another’s emotional life.
Christianity Clash
Two films at Locarno display how often the practice of Christianity contradicts the principles of kindness and empathy found in the New Testament.
Coming of Age, Sicilian-Style
Coming-of-age movies in recent years are usually snoozy; Giovanni Tortorici’s whipsmart funny Ketticè is the wonderful exceptional to that rule.
Titanic Ocean Is No Ordinary Film
With an impossibly beautiful aesthetic, Konstantina Kotzamani’s Titanic Ocean is a unique mermaid movie that transports you to another world.
Death Has No Master. A Vapid Colonial Drama.
Asia Argento stars as a wealthy heiress returning to a scarred Venezuela in Jorge Thielen Armand’s entertaining yet vapid Death Has No Master.
La Perra Woofs the Landing
With films about dogs easy to love — because after all, who doesn’t love dogs — it takes a special talent to make something as cynical and ugly as La Perra.
Big Rigs. Even Bigger Feelings.
Flesh and Fuel rises above its euro-drama trappings by capturing a great sense of sweetness and vulnerability among the continent’s gay trucking community.