[Visto: 312 veces] Our pick from the US Art hurts. Art is contradictory: it digs into one´s most personal conflicts and turns them into a distinctive piece that is both deeply universal and heartfully intimate. Nocturnal Animals dissects the nature of art and revenge (two deeply intertwined concepts), and cannily […]
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[Visto: 361 veces] Our pick from Brazil. A febre is a subtle take on cultural and invidual identitity, a magical-realist tale that suddenly turns into a painfully severe insight of contemporary Brazil, a country steeped in both pluralism and hatred. This hidden gem from 2019´s festival season digs into the […]
[Visto: 365 veces] Our pick from Peru. In retrospective, NN shouldn’t work. On the surface, this is a bleak, inexpressive approach to death and memory, a film as cold its subject. Do we really need to be reminded of the burden of loss and grief? Isn´t it better to try […]
[Visto: 1092 veces] Our pick from Canada. Mommy takes the popular Freudian conception of childhood to the very extreme, dealing with burdens that are hardly tolerable in mainstream cinema. The tensioned relationship between a disturbed teenager and his mother is daringly explored, usually capable of asking the right questions, especially […]