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When C. Tangana meets the flamenco guitarist Yerai Cortés, he is impressed by his music and his uniqueness. He asks him about his…

For consistency’s sake, it’s best to stick to one definition of an “international film,” and be similarly hasty with saying…

French cinema has recently given us some sensationally good courtroom dramas, such as Alice Diop’s Saint Omer and Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a…

When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside,…

It’s possible that the issue at the heart of “A Missing Part” will resolve itself in a few years. Japan,…

The follow-up to his anarchic debut feature The Twentieth Century, a postmodern restaging of Canadian history that eschewed accuracy and realism…

Danish director Frederik Louis Hviid makes his solo feature debut with an action-packed crime-thriller that doesn’t quite live up to…

Whenever the issue of representation inevitably comes up, various questions are asked about how it can be achieved on film…

Alexandre Dumas’ 1,200-page adventure tale doesn’t condense easily, but a pair of French directors have cracked it brilliantly, underscoring what…

The three words “you burn me” are a surviving fragment (or micro-poem) by Sappho, and make up the title of…