Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s “Anaïs in Love” begins as a typical romantic comedy but soon takes a sharp turn into less explored…
Author: Kevin Clark
1984’s “Night of the Comet” begins in a movie theater, and what better place to start a film about the…
Goran Stolevski’s “You Won’t Be Alone” begins with the birth of a baby girl named Nevena. Soon afterward, a horribly disfigured…
Amalia Ulman’s debut film “El Planeta” explodes with vibrant black and white cinematography; it switches between the gorgeous scenery of…
Desiree Akhavan’s “Appropriate Behavior” focuses on Shirin (played by Akhavan), a woman in her ’20s living in New York, as…
“The Cursed” opens in 1917, amidst the most heated period of World War I. After that brief interlude, it flashbacks…