‘Mon Roi’ – The Fine Print Of A Love Supreme
A done-to-death story of codependent love, where she mistakes his manic highs for everlasting charm and in her search for solid ground locks herself…
‘Birdman’ – Treading Hostile Boards from Hollywood Has-Been to Broadway Phoenix
Nominated for 9 Oscars, with well-deserved nods given both above and below the line, Birdman is expected to sweep most of the Academy’s laurels…
Art and Life at One and at Odds in ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’
One of a couple of celebrity lot-centered films shown in the Films de Cannes à Bucarest line-up, this two-hour drama written and directed by Olivier…
‘The Search’ – Is Oscar Winner Hazanavicius a One-Trick Pony?
Opening to a full house at Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest film festival, Michel Hazanavicius’ latest, which bowed at Cannes this May, was…
‘Deux Jours, Une Nuit’ – A Heartfelt Letter to a Heartless System
In an unsurprisingly down-to-earth move by the Dardenne brothers, Belgium’s horse in next year’s Oscar race, Two Days, One Night, plumbs the dark depths…
Soundless Dialogues and Loud Cinematic Statements of Ukrainian Drama ‘The Tribe’
I previously reported on The Voice of the Voiceless, and now here I go again down the silent rabbit hole of Deaf Mute Central,…
Top Travel Movies: These 14 Flicks Will Take You Places!
Movies are sometimes to be taken at face value, viewed as no more than quick, simple escape routes out of our dreary daily lives….
TIFF Round-Up – Films Plucked from the Field of Nightmares
It’s all over, bar the shouting! Now that another TIFF edition has wrapped up in Cluj, I have to say… I see what programmer Mihai Chirilov…
‘Under the Skin’ – sexpot with a Glaswegian Kiss of Her Own
It’s a tricky tightrope walk, adapting today’s bestselling novels for the screen. Flimsy chick lit or YA tearjerkers, the bulk of all written matter…