Asia Argento stars as a wealthy heiress returning to a scarred Venezuela in Jorge Thielen Armand’s entertaining yet vapid Death Has No Master.
Death Has No Master. A Vapid Colonial Drama.
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Her Private Hell? Absent Parents.
Told with his usual neon-heavy aesthetic, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell is a beguiling tale of absent parenthood, playing Out of Competition.
Promised Spaces. Liminal Traces.
Angela Schnalec’s DOP travels to Cambodia for an intellectually rigorous, if slightly tedious docufiction about the rich-poor divide.
Simple Plans Are Never Simple
A simple plan goes fiendishly out of hand in Dying Twice, Living Thrice, Karim Lakzadeh’s existential critique of modern day Iran.
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.
Another Unhappy Family, Excellently Portrayed
Valentina Maurel’s sophomore feature, Forever Your Maternal Animal, is a touching tale of familial bonds, mental illness and feminine sexuality.
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.
Shana. Chaos Under Pressure.
Anchored by an excellent performance by Eva Huault, Shana is a deeply entertaining Parisian-set tale of Jewish identity and feminine chaos.
Something Rotten on the Isle of Anglesey
A romantic trip to the Welsh goes horribly wrong when emails from a deceased ex-boyfriend threaten to derail everything in Worm, Ned Caderni’s assured debut.
Michael, Stop. We’ve Had Enough.
In our first edition of Double Take, Redmond and Jared discuss Antoine Fuqua’s misguided and insidious Michael Jackson biopic.