Bellas mariposas
Sardinian helmer Salvatore Mereu, who directed the wonderfully observant, regionally flavored "Three-Step Dance" and "Sonetaula," drops the ball hard in "Bellas mariposas." Except as maybe an audiovisual cheat sheet for...
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The Weight
A Korean hunchback mortician and his transsexual stepbrother never quite find the rhythm of their shared danse macabre in "The Weight," a grotesque flight of fancy from South-Korean auteur-cum-fantast Jeon...
The Weight
A Korean hunchback mortician and his transsexual stepbrother never quite find the rhythm of their shared danse macabre in "The Weight," a grotesque flight of fancy from South-Korean auteur-cum-fantast Jeon...
Bellas mariposas
Sardinian helmer Salvatore Mereu, who directed the wonderfully observant, regionally flavored "Three-Step Dance" and "Sonetaula," drops the ball hard in "Bellas mariposas." Except as maybe an audiovisual cheat sheet for...
The War of the Volcanoes
Film divas and volcanoes rumble in Francesco Patierno's docu "The War of the Volcanoes," which details how neorealist helmer Roberto Rosselini left his star and lover, Anna Magnani, for Hollywood's...
Fly With the Crane
Rising Chinese helmer Li Ruijun ("Old Donkey," "The Summer Solstice") makes his most accomplished feature yet with the spiritually inclined, generally light-of-touch "Fly With the Crane." Based on a novel...
Balancing Act
Daddy cool is left out in the cold after having been unfaithful in "Balancing Act," a well-played and beautifully written Italian drama from scribe-helmer Ivano De Matteo. Though hardly new...
Cherchez Hortense
The characters in the loquacious Gallic dramedy "Cherchez Hortense" aren't looking for Hortense so much as for ways to survive a stagnant marriage, and for the courage to deal with...
Cherchez Hortense
The characters in the loquacious Gallic dramedy "Cherchez Hortense" aren't looking for Hortense so much as for ways to survive a stagnant marriage, and for the courage to deal with...
Balancing Act
Daddy cool is left out in the cold after having been unfaithful in "Balancing Act," a well-played and beautifully written Italian drama from scribe-helmer Ivano De Matteo. Though hardly new...