It will break your heart to watch Capharnaum, but you should give yourself to it and go on its journey. Under the hardships it portrays, there is a lifeline of hope and an overwhelming thirst for justice.
Category: Drama
Happy As Lazzaro (2019) – Movie Review
Happy As Lazzaro is a very high concept movie, but in order to go for high concept you need to have something strong to say, and I don’t think the whimsy here works for any cohesive message. Unless the message is “slavery is bad”, which isn’t exactly breaking narrative ground.
Pain and Glory (2019) – Movie Review
Antonio Banderas shines with an understated performance in Pain and Glory, a self-reflective study in nostalgia.
God’s Own Country (2017) – Movie Review
God’s Own Country is harsh, but it is also tender, and it’s all the more affecting because it finds hope and love not in a fairy tale but in a story that feels real and lived in. I am sorry I missed it when it came out, because I feel like I lost valuable time where I could have been thinking about it.
High Life (2018) – Movie Review
High Life tells a story of life in emptiness, of being alone in the void. It is deliberately paced, and mesmerizing in its own way.
Gloria Bell (2019) – Movie Review
Julianne Moore is phenomenal in a subtle and grounded role, a tender and lived-in story of a woman in search of more.
Vox Lux (2018) – Movie Review
Natalie Portman delivers a great performance as a volatile pop star in Vox Lux.
Synonymes (2019) – Movie Review
Synonymes is an interesting look at Parisian life through the eyes of a charismatic protagonist, but it loses its way towards the end.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) – Movie Review
Other directors would have made this story flashier, more sensational, but Marielle Heller correctly chose a more level-headed and introspective approach.
Boy Erased (2018) – Movie Review
Boy Erased succeeds in using one person’s story to shed light on a large reality, and takes the chance to explore notions of identity, family and acceptance.
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