Director Dennis Gansel’s quietly devastating, authentic feeling 2004 German drama film Before the Fall stars Max Riemelt and Tom Schilling. It is an urgently expressed eye-opener to a forgotten horror in history. Writer/ director Dennis […]
Ferzan Özpetek’s 1997 Italian debut film Hamam takes a mesmerising look at how special places and people can transform other people. The romantic drama film is a haunting joy. It is sweet and sexy, delicately […]
In late 1970s Rome, two 25-year-old men meet by chance in the street and then in the Nuovo Olimpo cinema, and fall instantly in love. Aspiring film director Enea (Damiano Gavino) and medical student Pietro […]
A Bolivian father seeks out and confronts his late son’s ex-boyfriend. Rodrigo Bellott’s 2019 Bolivian drama film Tu me manques [I Miss You] is especially thought-provoking and moving. A Bolivian father seeks out and confronts […]
Basil Dearden’s lively tongue-in-cheek 1965 British comedy spy thriller film Masquerade is based on Victor Canning’s novel Castle Minerva, and stars Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Charles Gray, Bill Fraser, Marisa Mell, and Michel Piccoli. Director […]
Producer/ director Michael Carreras’s cheery, lively, good-natured 1963 British pop musical What a Crazy World stars Joe Brown, Susan Maughan and Marty Wilde, with Freddie and the Dreamers. This bright but daft musical has its […]
Director Peter Cattaneo’s 2019 feel-good British comedy drama Military Wives is an excellent, crowd-pleasing entertainment, with a strong central idea and a well chosen cast on good form. It stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan, […]
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