Reviews

In "Close-Up", Abbas Kiarostami not only plays an important role in the story, but also behind the scenes, he smartly tends to deflect our attention by not revealing which point of view is being privileged during certain parts, he also loves to fool around with our expectations which I find to be am...

Farhadi proves to be an exceptional director without even looking at the "behind the scenes" footage that shows how determined he is, I really love and admire when a director has a clear vision in his head, and won't stop until the former is brought to life elegantly, that's Asghar Farhadi for you.T...

This is a very cold picture, and Haneke makes sure that the audience absorbs every bit of the coldness from start to finish, despite how hard and emotional it may get.

The director intended for his film to be a morality lesson, not only to his country, but to everyone around the globe, and the fact that this lesson is wrapped in a pretty well made movie should be a huge and commendable achievement.

"Thesis" is a Spanish thriller film about grad student Angela, who stumbles upon a real snuff video while doing a thesis on audiovisual violence, she later find out that the victim is a missing student in her faculty, which drives her to crave for more answers.Thoughts: "Thesis" is Alejandro Amen r'...

The performances are fantastic to say the least, Liv Ullmann plays Elisabeth, a silent actress who doesn't speak for 98% of the film, so she is given a difficult task which is to portray all of her emotions through facial expressions, while Bibi Andersson plays Alma, a nurse who doesn't stop talking...

The film is based on a play of the same name, and the Lebanese civil war, where right-wing Christian militias massacre Muslims and Muslims massacre Christians right back, and it does not shy away from showing the brutality and harshness of the events, there are a chunk of war scenes that are simply ...

"Waltz With Bashir" is an Israeli animated biography of the film's director, Ari Folman, who plays himself and goes on a journey to reconstruct his own memories of his experience as a soldier in the 1982 Lebanon War.Thoughts: As we follow Ari Folman through his voyage, we meet a bunch of his former ...

Krisha Fairchild does a phenomenal job at playing a recovering addict, who's lost and doesn't know her way back despite her tries, the subtle and small efforts put by the actress add to the authenticity and mystery of her character's tale, the rest of the family are also incredible despite being unp...

"To Take a Wife" is an Israeli-French drama film about the unhappy marriage of Viviane, an orthodox Jewish woman who desperately seeks a way out of her broken relationship with her husband.Thoughts: This is the first film of its trilogy, the following two being "The Seven Days" and "The Trial of Viv...