Foreign Movies
Foreign movie reviews of arthouse world cinema from an indie film perspective.
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Happy Hour (ND/NF Review)
With a gargantuan 5+ hour runtime, 'Happy Hour' is the kind of intimate character study that's unheard of.
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Kill Me Please (ND/NF Review)
What starts out as a promising teen slasher soon falls victim to its own narcissism.
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Life After Life (ND/NF Review)
A man carries out the wishes of his late wife, whose spirit has possessed their son, in this bleak Chinese drama.
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Valley of Love
Two of France's greatest actors reunite in a strange tale of death and the afterlife in the California desert.
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Sweet Bean
With excellent performances and a fine directing touch, 'Sweet Bean' is a film worth finding and savoring.
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Kaili Blues (ND/NF Review)
As much as we cannot tell where the film is going, we cannot tell if it is going anywhere at all, or if it even needs to be.
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Fireworks Wednesday
Suspicion wreaks havoc on a woman's psyche in Asghar Farhadi's wonderful drama.
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Cemetery of Splendour
Acclaimed Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest film is a mystifying and wondrous experience.
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The Nightingale
Even with low stakes, the execution in filmmaker Philippe Muyl's 'The Nightingale' is bland and conventional.
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Being 17 (Berlin Review)
Téchiné’s film breathes with a poetic temperance; a beautifully structured, finely acted ballad on teenage angst and passion.
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The Club
A group of banished priests have their idyllic golden years upended in this amazing Chilean drama.
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Embrace of the Serpent
A visually sumptuous, frightening meditation on colonialism's violent stamping-out of indigenous culture.
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Boris Without Béatrice (Berlin Review)
Denis Côté's latest film is a visually striking look at one man's unchecked privilege.
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In Your Dreams! (Berlin Review)
Teen drama, parkour and fantasy sequences are just a few of the sloppy ingredients that make up this coming-of-age tale.
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Things to Come (Berlin Review)
With Isabelle Huppert, Mia Hansen-Løve has found a perfect collaborator.
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Fort Buchanan
This entertaining and beautifully shot tale of loneliness and ribaldry at a military base makes for an unconventional debut.
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Aferim!
Stark history and stunning imagery combine to form the backdrop for Radu Jude's gorgeous and raucous Romanian comic adventure.
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One Floor Below
By exploring character-based mysteries rather than narrative ones, 'One Floor Below' provides a rich and rewarding experience.
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Joann Sfar's polarizing neo-noir contains a sharp sense of style and a paper thin storyline.
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Arabian Nights: Volume 3 – The Enchanted One
Not the strongest chapter of Miguel Gomes' otherwise masterful work in his Arabian Nights series.
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One
Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One may just be the most haunting movement in Gomes' glorious, deeply melancholic, symphony.
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Arabian Nights: Volume 1- The Restless One
Miguel Gomes creates a work of surreal, humorous, and vigorously compelling cinematic art in Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - The Restless One.
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Youth
A visual spectacle that is further proof of Luca Bigazzi being one of the finest working cinematographers in the business.
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The World of Kanako
A hyper-frenetic, gripping and horrific descent into emotional depravity.
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Mustang
An exhilarating must-watch around the feminine experience of five fierce Turkish girls.
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Theeb
A clear-cut yet culturally rich survival tale, 'Theeb' is an assured and sharply focused debut.
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In the Basement
A documentary focused on the oddities in people's basements isn't as shocking as it wishes.
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Hard Labor
An entrepreneur faces challenges both financial and supernatural in this plodding socioeconomic drama/horror.
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Tokyo Tribe
An overwhelming, insane, and exhilarating ride no one will want to get off of.
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The Wonders
A family of beekeepers in the Italian countryside have their isolated, harmonious existence threatened in Alice Rohrwacher's warm, naturalistic hit from Cannes.