The opening scenes of “El lodo” reminded me of “La isla minima”, an excellent Spanish thriller by Alberto Rodriguez, not only because both films are set in the swampy areas of Spain, but also because …
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The opening scenes of “El lodo” reminded me of “La isla minima”, an excellent Spanish thriller by Alberto Rodriguez, not only because both films are set in the swampy areas of Spain, but also because …
Continue readingLife without smartphones has become almost impossible to imagine today. As much as they have simplified and accelerated our lives, they have also made us dependent on them, and the biographical dramedy of the young …
Continue readingAhmed (Sami Outalbali) is an 18-year-old from Algeria who lives somewhere in the suburbs of Paris. Although he comes from an apparently poor family and lives in a typical social apartment in a social skyscraper …
Continue readingIn the spring of 1989, it seemed that a new revolution was brewing in China. The student protests turned into great dissatisfaction with the current situation in the country, and the smell of change and …
Continue readingThe Belgian duo of Moroccan origin, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, made perhaps the best film so far about the time of the infamous so-called The Islamic caliphate, which spread fear throughout the territory …
Continue readingPolish art filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure, Fuga) headed to Great Britain to make her first English-language film, and the story of twins June and Jennifer Gibbons, who were the only black women in the …
Continue readingIf one day some cataclysm happens and we are left without internet, electricity and oil, somehow we will survive. At least I hope so. But if we run out of water, I’m afraid it won’t …
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Continue readingIn this classic western by Anthony Mann, James Stewart is the bounty hunter Howard Kemp who, a few years after the American Civil War, found himself in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains somewhere in …
Continue readingUntil Edward Berger made “Nothing New in the West”, Joseph Vilsmaier’s film was probably the best known and best German (anti)war film. And while the action of the film based on Remarque’s famous novel takes …
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