[…] Lillah Halla se positionne d’emblée du côté d’un cinéma engagé. Avec «Levante» elle opère une réhumanisation vivante, initiant une...
A filmic journey to Vienna in four episodes 1. Home for cinephiles, room for transcendence 2. Meeting Eva Sangiorgi 3. How (not) to forget – or The art...
[...] Formellement, « Les herbes sèches » opère une brillante synthèse entre le cinéma verbal et le cinéma de pure situation développés par le...
In Kore’eda’s cinematic world, the children’s realm is as enigmatic as the adult sphere appears obscure, calculated and prepared to sacrifice truth for...
[…] Évitant avec habileté le piège de la dramatisation… ce film donne à entrevoir le rituel d’un désir qui, loin de faner, demeure vivant, quoique divisé.
Hier werden sehr unterschiedliche Filme gezeigt, die aber etwas Gemeinsames haben. Es stehen Leute auf der Bühne, die sonst nicht im Vordergrund sind. Hier...
[…] «Music», wahrscheinlich auch Musik, ist beides: Spiegel und Traum. Wenn man sich an nichts anderem mehr festhalten kann, hält man sich an sich...
«Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry» is able to combine sculpture and painting on the cinema screen, in order to tell the story of Etero, hard in defending her...
What if a new wave of Korean cinema would focus on nuances? It would be good news for cinema itself, because a caress is more touching than a punch, in...
Sortir de l’enclos suisse pour aller découvrir un festival de films tourné vers l’Atlantique : c’est ce qu’Emilien Gür a fait pour Filmexplorer au...
It’s not a call to arms, a strategic manifesto nor a cold analysis of structural queerphobia, but a bit of them all. An outcry, but also a sob, a game and...
I go to the cinema and end up discussing the destiny of the planet… Yes, this can happen, at least during this October when going to the cinema Xenix in...
[…] La storia universale di Seydou insegna anche che il concetto di virtù non appartiene solo agli eroi di epoche remote e che la nobiltà d'animo, anche...
[…] The antidote, at least for Földes, seems to be embracing imagination, as in overcoming fear of what is possible (the life we might have, the people we...
[…] «Mad God» is only playing with the clichés of genre cinema in order to make explode them, with the radicality of another white-bearded artist, Paul...
[…] Ainsi, le geste essentiel du cinéaste est de calmer le jeu ! De s’opposer implicitement aux flux incessants d’événements qui font le lit du...
Tourné ou plutôt improvisé en trois jours et avec trois fois rien, « Bonjour la langue » est un clin d’œil, un pied de nez ou une réponse en bonne...
[…] Jude is neither a demagogue nor a moralist – he cares little about giving life lessons but he is concerned, and his concerns are spectacular: very...
[…] S’il y a un panoptikon de la surveillance, du contrôle, «El auge del humano 3» exemplifie plutôt le panoptikon de la découverte, découverte...
[…] The “good place”, the inner homeland, the mental “Heimat”: In Huber’s film they remain a mirage. A mirage which seems abstract, but becomes...
[…] If «Family Portrait» is a dream, or has the qualities of one, it is much less important what everyone is doing than why they are doing it…...
[…] Milstein is all but openly flirting with fiction here – and in doing so he offers an intriguing exploration of the artifice that undergirds...
[…] Ma non c'è indulgenza sullo spaesamento dei protagonisti, perché questo non nasce dalla possibilità di una scelta tra il Paese d'origine e l'Europa....
[…] Ce son organique puisant au cœur des éléments sera le point de langage d’un cérémonial du bord des eaux, au bout de ces plaines de sables et de...
[…] I left those scenes with a sense of awakening, just as I left Jeanne Dielmann, to the intricacies of life. […] You might ask how could such...
« Récit de coming of age, politique ou d’émancipation, au service du drame ou d’autres genres, ce fantastique qui fait du bien est destiné à un...
[…] They thus allow us to consider architecture as sometimes obstacle, element of resistance against the social flow of urbanity. In this dysfunctional...
Filmexplorer has invited Dennis Vetter from Berlin Critics’ Week to follow Ana Vaz’ film programme at the festival Videoex in Zurich. Here are some...
The team of FILMEXPLORER’s Live Radio at the Bildrausch Filmfest 2023 meets Bas Devos on the Stadtkino Piazza in Basel to discuss his last wonderful filmic...
