🎬 Laura Carreira
📝 Laura Carreira
🎭 Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Piotr Sikora & Neil Leiper
⏱️ 1h 44m
A very good film with flickers of greatness. Carreira demonstrates a keen awareness of how precarity in the economy leads to alienation as her protagonist, Aurora (Santos, who is excellent), becomes trapped in a spiral of desperation and degradation at the hands of faceless bureaucrats and unforeseen circumstances. The incessant beep of the warehouse scanner serves as a reminder that her humanity…
🎬 Marielle Heller
📝 Marielle Heller (adapted from the 2021 novel of the same name by Rachel Yoder)
🎭 Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Zoë Chao & Mary Holland
⏱️ 98m
A little conventional and underdeveloped, though Amy Adams is great in the titular role as both a woman on the edge, struggling to adjust to the enforced domesticity of early motherhood, and a woman who feels a primal, instictive urge to break free of these trappings; an urge that erupts in…
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This film is tough. This film is really, really tough. Ignore for a moment that it deals with child abuse, teenage prostitution, rape and the empty futility of a life wasted, and consider the core message itself: that trauma is unavoidable, that one day we’re all going to suffer some sort of tragedy and that, no matter how we attempt to deal with that tragedy, it will always be there, shaping our lives and dragging us back into the…
Directed by - Alfonso Cuarón
Written by - Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón
Starring - Maribel Verdú, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Juan Carlos Remolina, Silverio Palacios, Andrés Almeida, Ana López Mercado and María Aura
Narrated by - Daniel Giménez Cacho
Sex; it’s sticky, it’s embarrassing and – even in these enlightened days of liberalism and pornography at the click of a button – it’s treated like some sort of shameful taboo by a large chunk of society. There are…
