People develop unusual behavior during autumn season. Always has. And Alain Guiraudie gets this, which is why he drops Jérémie into a damp November village where everyone seems to want him but nobody knows what to do about it. The chestnut trees display their golden colors when Jérémie reaches the location. Guiraudie and cinematographer Claire […]
There's a particular kind of restlessness that settles in around 2 a.m. when you're lying next to someone you love but cannot reach. The distance isn't physical. It's something else, something that lives in the space between what you perform and what you actually feel. Halina Reijn's Babygirl understands this distance intimately, even if the
Some films sit with you the way a conversation does after you've already said goodbye and closed the door. You replay a phrase, a pause, the thing that was almost said. Magnus von Horn's The Girl with the Needle left me like that, standing in my kitchen at midnight, holding a glass of water I'd
Have you ever been so exhausted you begin foregetting common words? Not dramatic amnesia, just the soft erosion of vocabulary that comes from asking the same questions hundreds of times a day. Did you eat? Do you need to go? What do you want? I watched my sister lose the word for "colander" once, standing
Unspoken words carry a unique weight. Stolen has that silence. It accumulates slowly, like snow on a windshield, and by the end you realize you have been holding your breath for reasons the plot alone cannot explain. Elle Marja Eira's debut follows Elsa, a young Sámi woman in northern Sweden whose childhood was marked by
There is a kind of desire that feels less like attraction and more like recognition. Like spotting someone across a crowded platform at Nørrebro station and knowing, before any exchange of words, that this person could undo you completely. Rose Glass understands this sensation intimately, and Love Lies Bleeding is her attempt to render it
The filmmaker Glazer recorded his entire movie at the actual location which creates an authentic atmosphere throughout each scene. The sunlight that enters the scene through the concrete wall between Höss villa and Auschwitz creates a powerful effect in every frame. The family pool stands adjacent to dahlia beds and the greenhouse where tomatoes ripen
Saltburn puts on such an intense seduction show that it becomes embarrassing to observe because it resembles someone overexerting themselves at a social gathering where others seek the restroom. And yet. There's something about watching Barry Keoghan slurp bathwater that commits so hard to its own depravity you almost, almost respect it. The movie begins
