The film follows three parallel stories. John Sandberg (Simon J. Berger) is a vice squad detective on the brink of uncovering a network of corrupt politicians. Dagmar Glans’s (Pernilla August, she played Anakin’s mom in Star Wars franchise) is a motherly madam expertly networking... Read More »
A Month in Thailand (2012) does not take place over a month and is not set in Thailand. I feel I should get that out in the open right away. It takes place in one day, New Year’s Eve, in Bucharest, Romania. The story kicks off with Radu (Andrej Mateiu) making love to Adina (Io... Read More »
I was surprised to discover that writer-director Alexandra Gulea had not also edited Matei, Child Miner. The single consistency during Matei is the evoked feeling that the film’s production lacked ruthlessness. Gulea’s screenplay certainly needed a few more drafts. Perhaps editor... Read More »
It’s a magical state of perpetual transition, student life, caught halfway between the worlds of childhood education and adult actuality, just far removed enough from the harsh realities of life to still retain some shred of the vibrant optimism of youth. Firmly targeted toward s... Read More »
Layered minimalism paints an oft times grim portrait of 40-something Edyta, who arrives in Warsaw and quickly runs through her cash after staying in hotels. With her money gone, she turns to stealing food from grocery stores and, eventually, she resorts to internet dating. During... Read More »
There could hardly be more appropriate words on which to begin I Catch a Terrible Cat, Japanese writer/director Rikiya Imaizumi’s richly funny investigation of the strange phenomenon of love through the story of aging novelist Norifumi Takada, from whose The Immaculate Cat the qu... Read More »
The vampire film certainly has changed. No longer do we deal with the dread that so defined Tod Browning’s Dracula and F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. Instead of being fearful of vampires, hordes of teenage girls yearn for the gentle embrace of some sparkly blood-drinker that more likel... Read More »
Fifteen year old Eva van End (Vivian Dierickx) is the quirky overlooked daughter in a seemingly perfect, but dysfunctional family. One day, much to the surprise of everyone except Eva, a German exchange student named Veit (Rafael Gareisen) comes to stay with them for a week. Th... Read More »
Casper (Gustav Dyekjær Giese) is an amateur freelance burglar. He scouts potential targets on real estate websites, rakes the score with his partner and friend Robin (Nicholas Westwood Kidd), and sells it to the Arabian gang leader Jamal (Dulfi Al-Jabouri) for an involuntarily st... Read More »
