Saw this French-Canadian film a couple of days ago. It’s an Un Certain Regard selection at Cannes two years ago. It’s a grown-up story about love. Not a love story, or maybe it is, depends on how much of a realist or an optimist one is. It’s about Sophia, an erudite fortysomething university professor stuck in a decade-long monotonous live-in relationship with fellow academic Xavier. One day, she meets Sylvain, a handsome and rugged handyman hired to renovate the new…

Finally got to my queue for this 2023 Argentine film that premiered as an Un Certain Regard selection at Cannes. I loved it! It is three hours long, you can feel the length (as intended by the filmmaker), but you’ll never get bored. There are no throwaway scenes, it is tightly edited, there are no static shots for more than 30 seconds — this film is worth every second of its running time. And, you’d even wish it was longer…

the social media embargo has been lifted! i can now proclaim to the world my favorite movie this holiday season!!! saw “mary poppins returns” a couple of months ago and i had to wait like everybody else for the perfect moment to tell the world that i, like everyone else, was blown away by it! it’s simply the best american film of the year! it’s refreshing, timely, elegant, delightful, excellent! at my screening, the audience would burst into applause after…

This German film is perhaps the most gripping film this year after “Oppenheimer.” I was breathless after it ended. It’s a brisk hundred minutes of tension-filled drama about a new teacher and her dilemma trying to control her class, manage her relationship with her co-teachers, and mitigate a brewing scandal after uncovering who could be behind a series of thefts at the school. The school is a microcosm of how stressful modern society is:from trying to follow instructions and abide…