The Fencer
The Fencer Endel is on the run as his past affiliations begin catching up to him. Eluding the secret police in Leningrad, Endel finds himself in hapless Haapsalu, Estonia.
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Enclave In Kosovo 2004, five years after the war, 12-year-old Nenad rides to school in an armored tank, traveling from his Serbian enclave into hostile Albanian territory. Instead of friends his own...
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Elle Paul Verhoeven, the iconic director of “Robocop” and “Basic Instinct,” is back and at his provocative best in “Elle.” Michèle (Isabelle Huppert) seems indestructible: The head of a leading...
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Don't Be Bad The Italian submission for Best Foreign-Language Film at last year’s Academy Awards, “Don’t Be Bad” is the final work of cult director Claudio Caligari, who died of cancer before its...
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Apprentice In “Apprentice,” which debuted at Cannes, Aiman is a 28-year-old Malay correctional officer who has recently transferred to the territory's top prison. He lives with his older sister in a...
View ArticleEmbrace of the Serpent
Embrace of the Serpent Colombia/Venezuela/Argentina, 2015, 125 min., Spanish, Portuguese, German, Catalan, & Latin A film both blistering and poetic, “Embrace of the Serpent” shows how the ravages...
View ArticleThe Divine Order
The Divine Order Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the Tribeca Film Festival, “The Divine Order” is set in 1971 Switzerland, where women are still denied the right to vote,...
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Court India, 2014, 116 min., Marathi, Gujarati, English & Hindi Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane’s “Court” is a quietly devastating, absurdist...
View ArticleClash
Clash Set entirely within the confines of a police van, “Clash” — which premiered at Cannes as part of the Un Certain Regard section — dramatizes the ongoing political unrest in Egypt two years after...
View ArticleBreadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs When photographer Liliana (frequent Almodovar star Cecilia Roth) returns to Uruguay — the stage for her tragic past — her conscience is painfully torn between the political and the personal.
View ArticleThe Assassin
The Assassin Taiwan/China/France, 2015, 105 min., Mandarin Back with his first film in eight years, legendary Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien (“Flowers of Shanghai,” “Flight of the Red Balloon”)...
View Article1945
1945 In this haunting film — based on the acclaimed short story "Homecoming" by Gábor T. Szántó — deep undercurrents run beneath the placid surface in a quaint village that's ultimately forced to face...
View ArticleDogman
Dogman The latest from Matteo Garrone (“Gomorrah,” “Reality”), “Dogman” tells the story of Marcello (Marcello Fonte), a small and gentle dog groomer, who finds himself involved in a dangerous...
View ArticleCold War
Cold War “Cold War” — from the director of “Ida,” winner of the Oscar® for Best Foreign-Language Film — is a passionate love story between jazz pianist Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and singer-dancer Zula...
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Capernaum A politically charged fable, “Capernaum” — Lebanese director/co-writer Nadine Labaki’s Cannes Jury Prize-winning drama — revolves around Zain (Zain Al Rafeea), a 12-year-old boy who decides...
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