Somewhere on the other side of Paris sits the small neighbourhood of Porte des Lilas (“Port of Lilacs”), in which many of the city’s working-class citizens reside, making it their home after a long day’s work. Two of its residents in particular are the focus – L’Artiste (Georges Brassens) is a penniless musician who makes…

Stockholm in the 1980s seems like a wonderful place – except to seventh graders Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) and Klara (Mira Grosin), who haven’t ever quite fit in – but it’s not like they put in much effort anyway. Instead of following the mainstream fashions and pursuing popular interests, the two girls instead decide to embrace…

There was a crossover period somewhere in the mid-1950s, where the Golden Age of Hollywood came into collision with the earliest pioneers of New Hollywood – we weren’t quite at the point where it made sense to consider these young, burgeoning revolutionaries as being the next shining stars of the industry, but there was some…

There’s a certain faction of the filmgoing community that absolutely idolizes Hong Sang-soo, whose work has reflected a keen sense of understanding the human condition, so much that it has come to singularly define him, all the while some of his contemporaries have risen to more worldwide acclaim, outside of the niche arthouse of which…