In the hollow world of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster, society forces people to be with a romantic partner. Should you find yourself without a significant other, you check into a hotel where you have 45 days to find a lover. If you don’t succeed, you are turned...

It's not a spoiler to say that, in One Floor Below, a young woman living alone suffers a violent death, or that the prime suspect is Vali (Iulian Postelnicu), a married neighbor with whom she was having an affair. Director Radu Muntean delivers all these detai...

In a career that has been intermittently prolific, French filmmaker Philippe Garrel seems to have moved into his so-called “late period”, after 2005’s Regular Lovers, and an ensuing six-year absence from the silver screen. His last three films, released over t...

One has to admire Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales for its sheer audacity. It’s an ambitious attempt to bring the fairy tales of Giambattista Basile to life; stories which are among the oldest fairy tales on record, dating back to 1634. The earnestness that driv...