The third part of Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin’s trilogy ‘Love, Death and the Devil’ is a slow-winding powerful globe-trotting epic that follows Nazaret Manoogian (French actor Tahar Rahim) an Armenian blacksmith on his journey to reunite with his family after war has torn them apart. It starts in 1915 when the Turkish Army carry out … Continue reading
When you see the spectacular and rather breathtaking dancing scenes in this movie you can understand why writer/director Stéphanie Di Giusto chose to make her very first feature film very loosely based on Loie Fuller the great French/American dancer of the Belle Époque period. However Di Gusto takes great liberties with telling the dancer’s story and … Continue reading
Seong-jun may have arrived, but he actually has nowhere to go. This film-director is back in Seoul after he suddenly retreated to live in a remote country town the moment the last of his four movies were finished. He’s here for a few days to hang out with his friend Young-ho a film critic but … Continue reading
‘I’ve just had sex! Holy sh-t!’ is the very first thing we hear uttered from 15 year-old Minnie even before the opening credits roll. She is not talking to us but to her cassette tape recorder into which she secretly records her innermost thoughts. Minnie backtracks to relive the past two days that led up … Continue reading
For his fourth time in the directors chair NY based Israeli filmmaker Oren Moverman has adapted Herman Koch’s best selling novel The Dinner. It’s the story of two couples who get together for dinner somewhat reluctantly at a rid exclusive restaurant, and as the evening unfolds their polite exteriors disappear and by the time the … Continue reading