Sol (Naíma Sentíes) joins her aunts, Nuri (Montserrat Marañón) and Alejandra (Marisol Gasé), as they prepare to celebrate Tona (Mateo García Elizondo), her father, on his birthday. The ailing patriarch, young as he is, will probably not see another birthday, so the party also serves as a poignant farewell to the man. The children, however,…
Category: 2023
Robot Dreams
Dog, though he tries to ignore it, is lonely. Settling in for another night of Pong against the machine and a macaroni and cheese TV dinner, it seems that everyone in Manhattan has found a partner except for him. Before bed, an ad catches Dog’s attention for a mail-order robot friend, and after quickly dialing…
Housekeeping for Beginners
A nuclear family has combusted and are now living in the fallout, carefully navigating around each other. Matriarch Dita (Anamaria Marinca) is left to raise Vanesa (Mia Mustafi) and Mia (Dzada Selim), the two children of her girlfriend, Suada (Alina Serban), who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. Meanwhile, her husband, Toni (Vladimir Tintor), has…
The Settlers
Chile, 1893. Under the employ of José Menéndez (Alfredo Castro), Alexander MacLennan (Mark Stanley), Bill (Benjamin Westfall), and Segundo (Camilo Arancibia) travel through the wilderness to mark out the wealthy businessman’s land. Their job takes them deep into the country where the Onas people live, and acting on their orders, MacLennan and Bill do not…
Io Capitano
Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and his cousin, Moussa (Moustapha Fall) make the decision, against their parents’ will, to journey from their home in Dakar to Italy where they will find better work and opportunities to send money back home to support their families. With fake passports and a handful of ever-dwindling cash, the boys make their…
The Taste of Things
Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) is a cook who is under the employ of Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel), a gourmand with a lovely estate in the French countryside. Through their many years together, Dodin has fallen in love with Eugénie, though she continually rejects his proposals of marriage but will sometimes entertain his nightly advances. One summer,…
The 96th Academy Awards
The film year 2023 can be most accurately described in a word: Hot. Be it the hot, sandy beaches at Barbie World, the heat of an atomic reaction, or of course #HotLaborSummer. The year started off with the promise that Covid-19 was behind us, and movies were back in the cinema, but a 6-month long…
Perfect Days
Hirayama’s (Koji Yakusho) life is defined by routine. He wakes in the morning to the sounds of the streets coming to life, waters his plants, dresses for work and collects his things, grabs his coffee from the vending machine, then presses play on the cassette tape du jour after smiling up at the Tokyo Skytree…
Monster
Saori (Sakura Andô) is a single mother raising her son, Minato (Soya Kurokawa), after her husband passed away. The two celebrate the patriarch’s birthday while elsewhere in town a fire rages at a popular bar in which rumors say Mr. Hori (Eita Nagayama), Minato’s 5th grade teacher, frequents the club. Hori’s relationship with Hirona (Mitsuki…
The Marquee Topic 