In 1982, Ingmar Bergman released a sprawling reflection on his life, Fanny and Alexander. Intended to be his swan song, the five-part, 320-minute film examines the European cinema master through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve) as he experiences the triumphs and tragedies of growing up while also informing students of the director’s works about what helped to shape the…
Tag: International Cinema
Prayers for the Stolen
In a small Mexican town, nestled in the mountains, the very real threat from drug cartels and human trafficking greatly impacts the lives of all people. Most immediate are the young girls that live in the town who wear boyish clothes, cut their hair short, and have designated areas to hide whenever someone from the cartels stops by their homes…
The Emigrants / The New Land
In an effort to make a better life for his family, Karl Oskar (Max von Sydow) has grand dreams of moving from Småland in Sweden to North America to create a large, bountiful, and profitable farm. His wife, Kristina (Liv Ullmann) is a little more hesitant to leave their family land, but ever faithful in both God and her…
Dance of the 41
In the early 20th century in Mexico City, there was a secret, high-society social club where gay men could meet and live openly. The club, of which membership was highly guarded, catered to men in the upper echelons of society. One of its high-profile members was Ignacio de la Torre (Alfonso Herrera), the son-in-law of Porfirio…
Onibaba
In a grassy marsh in war-torn Japan, an old woman (Nobuko Otowa) and her daughter-in-law (Jitsuko Yoshimura) make their living by luring and killing lost samurai and selling their weapons and armor for food. When their neighbor, Hachi (Kei Satō), returns home from the war, he tells the women that Kishi, the older woman’s son…
The Mad Women’s Ball
Eugénie Cléry (Lou de Laâge) can talk to spirits. These claims, however true they may be, lead her upper-class Parisian father (Cédric Kahn) to admit her to Pitié-Salpêtrière, the premier neurological clinic at the time. Under the strict care of the head nurse, Geneviève Gleizes (Mélanie Laurent), Eugénie slowly finds her place at the institution, but she never gives up the…
Titane
After suffering a head injury as a child in a car accident, Alexia (Agathe Rouselle) still shows the scars from where a titanium plate was fused into her skull. Making a living as a dancer at car shows, one night a male fan follows her to her car and forces himself on her. This encounter triggers a…
Lamb
In the remote fields of Iceland live Maria (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason), sheep farmers. Their flock has been steadily growing over the past two years, but soon a lamb is born that will change their lives. The couple welcome in the new lamb like their own child, bringing her indoors, dressing her, and…
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Its July 1995 during the UN led evacuation of Srebrenica ahead of the town’s seizing by The Army of Republika Srpska. Helping the UN in their efforts is a translator, Aida Selmangić (Jasna Djuricic). As the evacuation continues, Aida desperately works to get her family into the safety of the UN shelter, but as further…
The Marquee Topic 