Author: Felix

    This shocking and poignant naturalistic French drama won the Golden Lion in Venice, and “L’evenement” or “Happening” is a film that thematically continues Mungiu’s cult “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”. The …

Although this crime drama reached an Oscar nomination in the category of best film outside the English-speaking world, it is difficult to call “Die gläserne Zelle” or “The Glass Cell” the pinnacle of German film …

David Lynch’s grotesque and wild romantic crime drama won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1990 quite surprisingly. Interestingly, Lynch and the crew finished the film just a day before the premiere in Cannes where, …

    It was this erotic-psychological thriller and the first film made by the British Adrian Lyne after a full two-decade hiatus. This filmmaker was at his creative peak in the eighties and nineties, when …

Vegans or vegetarians (which is the difference, I never managed to understand, and it’s not that I tried), will be on the menu of a family of butchers from a French provincial town in black …

Although the name Kurt Vonnegut may not mean much to us in Europe, he was one of the greatest American writers of the second half of the 20th century. After becoming famous in the late …

 Ziyang Zhou is obviously another in a series of Chinese filmmakers of the new generation who are trying to present the not very idyllic everyday life in their country as convincingly and realistically as possible. …

Nearly two years after this shocking and realistic indie drama was screened at the Blackstar Festival in Philadelphia, it has finally come to regular distribution. And American critics welcomed the debut work of Shatara Michelle …

After making films based on probably all of William Shakespeare’s plays, Kenneth Branagh joined Agatha Christie and her countless screened whodunnit crime novels. Five years after “Murder on the Orient Express”, Branagh stood behind again …

Romanians have made a handful of exceptional and quality films in the last twenty years, and the shocking and shocking hyperrealistic drama by Calin Peter Netzer certainly belongs to the very top. “Pozitica copilului” or …