Initial contacts with approaching death at a retirement home, where “we all come only for a while, but we never go back”. The nice production design and fragile social spirit of this film about advanced age is underpinned by the wonderful acting of Maciej Damiecki. Night Silence is considered to be a horror movie…

Triangle of Sadness for communists and lovers of idiotic disaster movies in one. You don’t want that. I’ve already told you that The Platform was overrated. Being credited as the director of Rich Flu is an outright dishonor. Even so, it’s a spectacular production and Mary Elizabeth Winstead not only looks good in it,…

In the deluge of low-budget festival movies in which filmmakers try something out, Exhuma is pleasing thanks to its structured screenplay, professional technical execution and acting performances. The gradual build-up with the revealing of the contents of a deep grave works well. But the demon itself, changing into a…

A minimalistic sci-fi movie built on an idea and its interesting rendering rather than on genre production design. It somewhat reminded me of Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin. Jérémy Clapin handles the dream passages with animated interludes, which he has experience with from the animated film I Lost My Body. The…

A documentary-like camera stuck 90% on the protagonist alone doesn't necessarily make a good film, but it increases the rawness and authenticity and saves money for the filmmakers, as it allows them to "neglect" much of the sets and scenery, which are mostly out of focus, so you can guess what's going on but not…

MadS bat une sorte de record pour ce qui est du contraste entre sa brillante (!) exposition et son incapacité criminelle à répondre aux attentes qu’il suscite. Un film à l’arc dramatique inversé qui enthousiasme par ses grandes ambitions techniques d’un seul plan-séquence continu, démarré en outre par une situation…

Un film familial sur le rapprochement entre une fille pragmatique et son loser de père, lors d’une randonnée dans la nature néo-zélandaise. Avec un point de vue très enfantin et un humour le plus souvent naïf. La petite Nell Fisher est mignonne à la manière d’un personnage d’enfant dans un film de Spielberg, la scène…

A guy with a rifle pursues a bloodied woman on the run. You probably won’t guess what preceded this situation, or what comes after it. This devilishly disturbing thriller is divided into six chapters (and an epilogue) that are arranged in non-chronological order. However, the non-linear narrative is not a gimmick, as…

Flimsily constructed bloody nonsense without dialogue and without a screenplay. Right from the beginning, you are thrown into a fictional (and most likely slightly supernatural) world without knowing what is actually going or what the rules of that world are. And when the film ends, you still don’t know. There are…

A comedic Swiss Run Lola Run with a young seamstress who uses needles and thread in very unusual and creative ways. And she unwittingly gets herself into a situation in which she might end up dead, or with a suitcase full of money. In his debut film, the director developed the original idea of his previous short into…