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,…
Tag: Janus Contemporaries
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…
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…
Afire
Felix (Langston Uibel) and Leon (Thomas Schubert) go on a short retreat away from the city to Felix’s grandfather’s cabin near the Baltic Sea. Felix plans to finish his photography portfolio for school and Leon, the manuscript for his next novel. Their plans do not start off well when the car breaks down leaving them…
The Eight Mountains
Pietro (Lupo Barbiero) joins his mother, Francesca (Elena Lietti), in Grana, a small town in the Italian Alps, as he does every summer. His father, Giovani (Filippo Timi), joins when he can but otherwise spends most of his time at work. Pietro becomes fast friends with Bruno (Cristiano Sassella), the only other boy in the…
Godland
The Icelandic winter proves formattable terrain for Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), a young Danish priest, sent by the church to establish a house of worship for its followers on the Southeastern coast of the island country in the late 19th century. The journey is an arduous one, made harder due to a feud fueled by…
The Innocent
Abel (Louis Garrel) meets his mother’s, Sylvie (Anouk Grinberg), soon-to-be husband, Michel (Roschdy Zem), at their jailhouse wedding, and he is less than impressed with this newest member of the family. After Michel’s release, things do not improve as Abel has a hunch that Michel is not as reformed as he claims to be. Following…
EO
EO is a circus donkey with a close bond to his handler, Kasandra (Sandra Drzymalska), but when new laws go into effect banning the use of live animals in performances, EO is taken to a farm to live out his days as a therapy animal for children with disabilities. On the night of his birthday,…
The Marquee Topic 