The 2023 7-episode Spanish series that launched Cannes winning directors Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo is finally available to view for Australian audiences.
8
… a compelling, eerily relevant film about the consequences of downsizing in the face of AI, and the lengths one will go for their family.
5
… spectacle without substance: a film that gestures toward scandal and intensity but offers little emotional resonance or intellectual insight in return.
There is a particular kind of fatigue that settles over a filmmaker once his signature has been noticed too many times, and Jafar Panahi, joining a press conference for It
9
… it’s not just an exercise in courage; it’s terrific and powerful …
… a series of fascinating, albeit disturbing, moments in a languid encapsulation of Cronenberg’s obsessions.
At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Chilean director Diego Céspedes emerged as one of the most striking debut voices — not only because of the emotional depth of his film
7
… the kind of film that’s difficult to shake.
Paolo Sorrentino has long been fascinated by power in his movies. From chronicling former Italian PM, Giulio Andreotti, in 2008’s Il Divo to the world of PM Silvio Silvio Berlusconi
7.5
What lingers most is not the political backdrop or even the narrative itself, but the texture of memory: the heat of the city, the noise of the streets, the quiet