By Alice Pickard Dir: Jose Padilha Original title: “Elite da Tropa” This film, the first in a series, follows the work of the Batalhão de Operacões Policiais Esperciais (BOPE), the Special Operations Force in Rio […]
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Dir. Matias Penachino With an observational documentary style, Summun Bonum opens with a family watching old video footage of when the parents adopted children from a foreign country. Straight away the mother’s natural son asks […]
Original title: “La Historia Oficial” Set in the final years of the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), The Official Story is unafraid of exploring the pain that this period brought to the country. It […]
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The beginning of Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina†could well be the introduction to the 2001 Argentinian movie “The Swampâ€, directed […]
By: Laura Saxton Directed by Sara Colangelo Sundance Film Festival review Little Accidents brings together a tragic story embedded with pain and emotion with beautifully delicate visuals to seamlessly create a sensitively honest and unassuming translation […]
Dir: Sean Durkin By: Daria Landal Martha Marcy May Marlene, a US drama shot in twenty days on a low budget, has more than meets the eye behind the facade of an extravagant title. The […]