Arló Ó Cairealláin (Michael Fassbender) teaches his two sons Irish in a rebuke against the encroaching British law that did not recognize the language and sought to squash it out. He disappears, becoming a bit of a folk hero in the process, leaving behind his wife Dolores (Simone Kirby) to raise Naoise (Móglaí Bap) and…
Tag: International Cinema
Touch
As the world is shutting down amid the spread of Covid-19, Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) journeys from Iceland to England to reconnect with a woman he knew when he was younger. As a youth (Palmi Kormákur), he studied business at the London School of Economics. On a bit of a dare with his friends, he applies…
The Beast
1910, Paris. Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) and her husband, Georges (Martin Scali), run the premier doll factory in town. She reunites by chance with Louis (George MacKay), an old friend, and confesses to him her fear of suffering a great tragedy. Los Angeles, 2014. Gabrielle is housesitting for an architect in his luxury home. After an…
A Prince
Pierre-Joseph (Antoine Pirotte, voiced by Grégory Gadebois), a horticulture apprentice. Alberto (Vincent Barré, voiced by Mathieu Amalric), the master gardener. Adrien (Pierre Barray), the land owner. Françoise (Manon Schaap, voiced by Françoise Lebrun), his wife. Moïse (Bruno Martin), their first son, a hunter. Kutta (Chiman Dangi), their second son, an Indian prince. Together, they make…
Exhuma
Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) and her apprentice, Bong-gil (Lee Do-hyun), two skilled Korean shamans, are called to investigate a strange disease plaguing the newborn son of a wealthy Korean-American family. They trace the cause back to a vengeful ancestor who did not receive a burial appropriate to their class, so Park Ji-Yong (Kim Jae-cheol), the patriarch…
Evil Does Not Exist
Takumi (Hitoshi Omika) lives in peace with his young daughter, Hana (Ryo Nishikawa), in the rural village of Mizubiki, not far from Tokyo. News breaks that a company wants to convert some of the forests that the town relies on into a glamping resort so that the city folk can experience a taste of the…
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…
La Chimera
Arthur (Josh O’Connor) returns to Lazio, Italy after spending some time in jail for selling Etruscan artifacts on the black market. He reunites with Flora (Isabella Rossellini), the mother of his deceased girlfriend, Beniamina (Yile Yara Vianello), and is introduced to Italia (Carol Duarte), a young woman and aspirational singer who works for Flora in…
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…
The Marquee Topic 