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…

When it comes to the subject of global cinema, it’s not uncommon for those with a penchant for exploring the wider world of filmmaking to be asked why they enjoy looking beyond what’s directly around them. My reason, and one I believe is relatively common, is that seeing films made in different countries gives invaluable…

Sometime in the mid-1980s, a marriage is gradually falling apart. Rory (Jude Law) is a mildly successful businessman who begins to realize that his recent streak of good luck is coming to an end, and that there isn’t much hope for him in New York. He consults with his wife, Allison (Carrie Coon), who works…

In the early 1930s, somewhere in the Deep South, a young woman (Betty Lou Holland) is growing weary of how limited her life has become now that she has a daughter. She will do anything to rid herself of the child, who she sees as nothing but a burden – and while she was too…

The first time we encounter Joanna Rakoff (Margaret Qualley) is on a quiet New York City street towards the end of 1995. It doesn’t take long for us to get to know her – she’s currently finishing her Master’s degree in English Literature, and has come to the city to visit an old friend for…

You can delineate the career of Agnès Varda into various areas (rather than stages, since they often had significant overlap and even occurred concurrently in some spaces) – there are her human dramas that are often driven by a sweetly sentimental sense of individuality, her socially-charged documentary shorts, and her full-length non-fiction pieces that often…

In The Father, his ambitious adaptation of his own stage play, Florian Zeller created one of the most heartbreaking films of the past few years, a strikingly beautiful ode to memory told through the eyes of someone who is on the verge of losing his entire perspective on reality. It was already a peculiar situation…