Is it praise or a slam to say that “Sundown” could possibly be the saddest “Curb Your Enthusiasm” episode ever? The protagonist, performed by Tim Roth, is a creature of selfishness, the type who can certainly be present in well-to-do neighborhoods all around the world. We’re not supposed to love him and even significantly perceive…
Day: January 28, 2022
Sundance 2022: Navalny, Descendant, Aftershock
There has by no means been a documentary “Sundance” fairly like Daniel Roher’s “Navalny,” a late addition to the pageant’s US Documentary Competitors, and by turns simply the class’s funniest and most bleak title. It’s protected to say that nobody has ever captured moments like Daniel Roher and his crew does a politician investigating their…
Brighton 4th
Georgian filmmaker Levan Koguashvili’s Tribeca prize-winner, “Brighton 4th,” is a tragicomedy that sneaks up on you stealthily earlier than flooring you with an emotional sucker punch within the remaining reel. At first, the movie appears to be merely about unhappy sacks who compulsively gamble, dropping the cash they’ve been despatched by members of the family…
Rifkin’s Festival
Once I received the e-mail asking me to evaluate this film “Rifkin’s Festival”, a tune began going by way of my head, and that tune was Pet Store Boys’ “What Have I Finished To Deserve This?” I don’t wish to make too massive a deal of this right here—or belabor the apparent, for that matter—however,…
Clean
“Clean” accomplishes extra when it tries to do much less: when it follows Adrien Brody’s tormented character round as he quietly goes in regards to the everyday enterprise of atoning for his sins. Brody conveys a lot of emotion and remorse merely by his display presence, although his haunted eyes and regular gait. However then…
A Taste of Hunger
Candy. Bitter. Salt. Fats. Warmth. “A Taste of Hunger” The appropriate mixture of those components is elegant, whether or not literal, in composing a beautiful dish like these created by master-chef Carsten (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau of “Game of Thrones”), or, metaphorically, in relationships and in life. The mistaken mixture may be catastrophic. Within the Danish movie…