The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears could be a trainwreck of a film and still maintain pride of place in the giallo canon solely for that stupendous title. Right on par with, perhaps even above, the likes of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, this is a name that grabs the att... Read More »
“You’ll bury them in Morocco?” It’s a question asked twice, each time with visible strain—both physical and emotional—by the hospital bed-bound Murielle, whose pained face is our introduction to Our Children. It’s strange, the reverence we reserve for the corpse, despite its stan... Read More »
The main actress of a film dies in the middle of a shoot. No one in the crew has any idea about what is going to happen next. How does the rest of the film unfold? How does the crew manage to continue with the filming even in the absence of the actress? All these questions and mo... Read More »
La promesse, directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, presents the screen debut of Jérémie Renier at fourteen years of age, playing a son whose unemployed father is involved in the trafficking of illegal immigrants. While not their first feature film, the Dardenne brothers consi... Read More »
A hilltop in the dead of night, the cold air of the Irish south hanging over the scene. Then, a sudden burst of brilliant, white light, a cacophonous roar of engines, and a shape crashing into the fields below. The young Paco is the sole witness to this unreal event in Ian Power’... Read More »
For years now French thrillers have been besting Hollywood’s, offering the kind of character drama and tense ferocity studios have consistently failed to produce. Films like District 13, Anything for Her, Crimson Rivers, and The Beat That My Heart Skipped may come as far from per... Read More »
