The phrase a "white, white day" refers to a moment when the landscape and sky are so dense with snow, mist or fog that it is no longer clear where the two meet....
Had you searched the words "Family Romance" a few weeks before the Cannes Film Festival you would have come across a site for a Tokyo-based business. You would...
Quentin Tarantino returns in a haze of cigarettes, cocktails, razzle-dazzle, and psychedelic rock with Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood, a jarring concoction of...
In Frankie, the scattered personae of an unconventional family gather in the seaside Portuguese town of Sintra for what might be the last time. The matriarch, a...
Of all the great deadpan, acerbic realists that the Romanian cinema has thrown our way in the last twenty years, Corneliu Porumboiu has always been the best at ...
The new film Les Misérables may take only passing glances to Victor Hugo's text but it does boast a synopsis worthy of the sheer exuberance of that ti...
The last film legendary Japanese ultra-violence auteur Takashi Miike brought to Cannes' Directors' Fortnight (Yakuza Apocalypse, 2015) featured a character that...
It isn’t easy making a film like Driveways stand out. We have walked these streets so often before. We know the twists and turns. We expect the darker corners. ...
For his debut feature, writer-director-cinematographer Mark Jenkin takes a parable about a contemporary fishing community under threat from wealthy outsiders an...
Irish-born, Berlin-based, Rory O'Connor has been covering the European film festival circuit since 2012. A regular contributor to The Film Stage, his work has also appeared in Frieze, The Playlist, and CineVue.
