How best to describe Reflet dans un diamant mort (Reflection In A Dead Diamond), one of the most kinetic, sensual and bizarre films to have graced this year’s Berlinale Competition? Imagine the fever ...
I love filmmakers who not only have a lane and stick to that lane, but find new and inventive ways to breathe life into that lane. Belgian writer-directing duo of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani ...
Of the current crop of directors who have made a style out of emulating other filmmakers’ styles (looking at you, Ti West), Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are classier than most. The fact that ...
“Surreal” has become a kind of all-purpose adjective, one used to describe everything from an alien abduction to a meal at Arby’s. But in its original, art-movement sense—a marriage of hyper-reality, ...
"This is the brain on cinema!" Shudder has revealed the official US trailer for a wild and, avant garde film from France titled Reflection in a Dead Diamond, the latest from filmmaking duo Hélène ...
Daniel Craig fared well in his James Bond casting, carrying the fictionally-renowned MI6 agent through five successful films between 2006 and 2021. But we haven't seen a new Bond film since "No Time ...
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which ...
"It is false to say that the screen is incapable of putting us ‘in the presence of’ the actor," the great French philosopher André Bazin wrote in 1967. "It does so in the same way as a mirror — one ...
Carmen Cardenas’ two boys ran through the Urban Ecology Center’s fire pit area, ready to make s’mores with their faces freshly painted to resemble “calaveras,” or sugar skulls. The family joined the ...