Light from light / USA (Director and Screenwriter: Paul Harrill; Producers: James M. Johnston, Kelly Williams, Toby Halbrooks, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Headington, Theresa Steele; Principal Cast: Marin Ireland, Jim Gaffigan, Josh Wiggins, Atheena Frizzell, David Cale). Single mom Shelia, gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams, moonlights as a paranormal investigator while working at a car-rental service counter and raising her teenage son, Owen. […]

Se quiser conhecer como nasceu esta coluna, leia aqui. Para mim, aquele sujeito esquisito de monóculo, cabelo raspado à militar e com jeitão de chefe de final de fase não passava de um character actor, destinado a fazer tipos arrogantes como em Crepúsculo dos Deuses (1950) e A Grande Ilusão (1937). Só depois soube que Erich von Stroheim […]

Monos / Colombia/Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Sweden/Uruguay (Director: Alejandro Landes; Screenwriters: Alejandro Landes, Alexis Dos Santos; Producers: Alejandro Landes, Fernando Epstein, Santiago Zapata, Cristina Landes; Principal Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Moisés Arias, Sofia Buenaventura, Deiby Rueda, Karen Quintero, Laura Castrillón). Belonging to a rebel group called “the Organization,” a ragtag band of child soldiers, brandishing guns and war names like Rambo, Wolf, Lady, and […]

Lapü / Colombia (Directors: Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes; Screenwriters: Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes María Canela Reyes; Producer: Julián Quintero). On a windy night in the Colombian desert, a young Wayúu woman named Doris sleeps in her hammock and has a dream that she reunites with a deceased cousin. When she awakens and shares […]

Koko-di Koko-da / Sweden/Denmark (Director, Screenwriter, Producer: Johannes Nyholm; Principal Cast: Ylva Gallon. Leif Edlund Johansson, Peter Belli). Knowing their relationship is falling apart, Elin and Tobias embark on a mirthless camping trip hoping to find their way back to one another. Instead, they find themselves in an endless loop of torment, humiliation, and tangled dreams at the hands […]

Divino Amor/Divine Love (Director: Gabriel Mascaro; Screenwriter: Gabriel Mascaro, Rachel Daisy Ellis, Esdras Bezerra, ; Lucas Paraízo; Producer: Rachel Daisy Ellis; Principal Cast: Dira Paes, Julio Machado, Emilio de Melo, Teca Pereira, Mariana Nunes, Thalita Carauta). In the Brazil of 2027, where raves celebrate God’s love and drive-through spiritual-advice booths have become the norm, Joana holds her faith […]

The lodge / USA (Directors: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala; Screenwriters: Sergio Casci, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala; Producers: Simon Oakes, Aliza James, Aaron Ryder). Devoted to their devastated mother, siblings Aidan and Mia resent Grace, the younger woman their newly separated father plans to marry. They flatly reject Grace’s attempts to bond, and they dig up dirt on her tragic […]

The Last Tree. The Last Tree / United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Shola Amoo, Producers: Lee Thomas, Myf Hopkins) — Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after a happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner London to live with his mum. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, […]

Se quiser conhecer como nasceu esta coluna, leia aqui. Desvelado em exaustivas sete horas e trinta minutos, denso e arrastado, O Tango de Satã (Sátántangó, 1994) deve ser uma grande experiência para assistir no cinema. Vi-o durante três ou quatro dias, no sofá de casa. Suas imagens ecoam em minha cabeça. O diretor húngaro Béla Tarr […]

Melhores séries de 2018. Prosseguindo nossa jornada das listas de melhores do ano, chegou a hora de discutir quais foram as dez melhores séries de 2018! Esta lista foi difícil de compor, afinal de contas, não é possível assistir todas as séries lançadas no Brasil e no mundo. Além disso, pessoalmente, não me interesso por […]