Longing has rarely looked this beautiful. It´s truly impressive how masterfully and confidently crafted and directed this movie is, given that it´s Joe Wright´s feature film debut. I especially love the cinematography, lighting, production design, score, and rhythm of the storytelling as well as the attention to detail, subtlety, tenderness, and nuance of both the filmmaking and the performances. I guess I have to it that I have a soft spot for gorgeous period pieces about fated lovers who have…

Boredom has rarely been this captivating. “Jeanne Dielman”, Chantal Ackerman´s magnum opus and celebrated gem of arthouse, feminist, and slow cinema, is an avant-garde slice-of-life film with a strong focus on routine. The way Ackerman portrays it, routine is a mind-numbing prison but at the same time also the only area of control for the powerless. That ambivalence is quite fascinating. With its slow pacing, long takes, and static camera, the movie puts us into the mindset of Jeanne and…

A French-language film which is light on plot, heavy on vibes, and beautiful to look at, and which follows young people who have naturally conversational yet deep discussions about life, love, sex, art, and philosophy….sounds like an Éric Rohmer film….but with a focus on a feminine LGBT perspective, since it´s actually a Chantal Ackerman film. Sounds good, is good. While “Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels” isn´t up there with Ackerman´s masterpieces, it…

I can see why this film is divisive. Robert Altman, the conman, did it again. He made the audience believe that they are watching a murder mystery, when it actually is a commentary and satire on social class. The whodunnit aspect is secondary. The murder you´re waiting for occurs after 80 minutes and even after that, the film focuses less on the investigation and more on people´s reactions to the murder. And the conclusion is less about the murder method…

Wow, Netflix drops a banger adult-oriented animated series and barely promotes it. Classic Netflix things.

“Blue Eye Samurai” takes place in Japan during the Edo period when the country had a very strict isolationist foreign policy and follows a female mixed-race samurai named Mizu, who disguises herself as a man, on her quest for vengeance.

This show deserves to be Netflix´s next big animated prestige success after “Arcane”. It´s fantastic. First of all, the series looks gorgeous. The animations are…