“Mad Men” has done much to romanticize the art of the advertising agency, with many of the show’s most memorable scenes devoted to the creative and strategic genius required to…
Part of the appeal of Lithuanian director Laurynas Bareisa’s subtly powerful second feature, Dry drowning (Seses), is that you never know if what you’re watching is taking place in the…
Rebecca Byrne, the teenage protagonist of Transamazonia, has a detached, otherworldly aura that is entirely appropriate for someone who has literally fallen from the sky. As a little girl, a…
Multiple alternate realities, none of them remotely familiar with our own, coexist in “Sew Torn,” a high-concept crime farce that pits guns against haberdashery, innocence against guilt and genre-warring against…
Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón revealed his interest in producing a horror film during a master class at the Locarno Film Festival. The Mexican filmmaker, who received a lifetime achievement award…
The shadow of the decades-long civil war in Guatemala casts its shadow over Mexico 86an intimate political thriller about a family trying to stay together while war follows them abroad.…
The court of Louis XVI is stripped down to its faded, festering shell in The Flood, a haunting study of the king’s final days in which the luxurious trappings of…
The famous French proverb: “Après moi, le déluge” (“Après moi, le déluge”)“After me the deluge” is often attributed to Louis XV, who used it to express his complete disinterest in…
