One Fine Morning witnesses a key disappearance play out in the the grinding rhythms of real life.
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Oscar-nominated Close is a tragedy of teenage masculinity
In his follow-up to Girl, Lukas Dhont presents a tragedy of toxic masculinity and its insidious effects on a teenage friendship in rural Belgium.
The Wonder is a haunting reckoning of faith and reason in post-famine Ireland
As an English nurse hired to witness a possible miracle in Ireland, Florence Pugh is a steely presence in The Wonder, Sebastián Lelio’s adaptation of the Emma Donoghue novel. A spiritual detective story of sorts emerges in a remote Irish village where a young girl appears to have survived for months without eating. A council of serious men — physicians, town elders, a priest — decide that a two week observation by two nurses taking eight hour shifts is the only way to determine whether the feat is divine intervention or some sort of hoax.
Cate Blanchett conducts a monumental performance in TÁR
Saturday brought another tribute, this time to the legendary Cate Blanchett to coincide with the US premiere of Todd Field’s TÁR. We spend two hours and forty masterfully controlled minutes with the prodigious, highly-lauded, multiply-degreed conductor Lydia Tár.
Telluride 2022: Aftersun, Close, One Fine Morning
Three stories of loss and longing on the last days of the Telluride Film Festival: Aftersun, Close, and One Fine Morning
Telluride 2022: The Wonder, Bones and All
Two esteemed international directors brought stories of hunger and horror to the Telluride Film Festival in the form of a World Premiere for Sebastián Lelio’s gothic mystery The Wonder and a US premiere for Luca Guadagnino’s cannibal love story Bones and All
Telluride 2022: Empire of Light and Armageddon Time
The nineteen eighties were in the air at Telluride, with new films from Sam Mendes and James Gray revisiting a tumultuous year of personal histories in England and New York, respectively.
Telluride 2022: Women Talking, Icarus: the Aftermath, and Broker
The opening day of Telluride saw premieres of Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, Bryan Fogel’s sequel to Icarus, and Kore-eda’s Broker.
Telluride 2021: Cow, Petite Maman, the Card Counter
In this dispatch from the Telluride Film Festival, Andrea Arnold on a farm, Celiné Sciamma in the woods, and Paul Schrader at the poker table.
Telluride 2021: Spencer, C’mon C’mon, the Power of the Dog
A dispatch from Saturday at Telluride featuring films from three master directors, each of whose primary action is catalyzed by a challenging marriage.