More from Leslie Felperin
‘Gloria!’ Review: An All-Female Orchestra at the Turn of the 19th Century Does It for Themselves in Fluffy Italian Debut
Margherita Vicario's film centers around women musicians at a Church-run establishment in early-1800s Italy.
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‘Sons’ Review: Sidse Babett Knudsen Is Remarkable as an Avenging Corrections Officer in a Plausibility-Challenged Drama
The Berlin competition entry is the latest from Danish 'The Guilty' director Gustav Moller.
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‘A Family’ Review: French Writer Christine Angot Makes Directorial Debut With a Bruisingly Personal Doc About Incest
Like many of her written works, this explores the damage done by the abuse inflicted on Angot as an adolescent by her father.
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‘A Traveler’s Needs’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Reteams With Hong Sang-soo for Another Wispy, Wistful Drama
Competing for the main prize in Berlin, the film is the French star's third collaboration with the South Korean auteur.
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‘Dying’ Review: Lars Eidinger Stars as a Harried Orchestra Conductor in a Moving and Funny German Family Saga
Life, death and everything in between are there in Matthias Glasner’s competitor for the Golden Bear, which also features Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg and Ronald Zehrfeld.
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‘Treasure’ Review: Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry Play Daughter and Father in a Misfire of a Holocaust Dramedy
A woman and her Holocaust survivor father go on a trip tracing their family history in Poland in German director Julia von Heinz's film.
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‘From Hilde, With Love’ Review: Stirring German Drama Spotlights a Heroine of the Anti-Nazi Resistance
Liv Lisa Fries stars as Hilde Coppi, a left-wing member of a cell in the German Resistance group the Red Orchestra, in Andreas Dresen's drama.
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‘My Favourite Cake’ Review: From Iran, a Delectable Later-Life Love Story
Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha's Berlinale competitor revolves around the romance between a 70-year-old widow and a same-aged divorced taxi driver.
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‘Turn in the Wound’ Review: Abel Ferrara Interweaves Ukraine Footage With Coverage of Patti Smith in a Sincere Documentary
The 'Bad Lieutenant' director's latest, a non-fiction portrait of war and art, bowed out of competition at the Berlin Film Festival.
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‘Argylle’ Review: Henry Cavill and Dua Lipa Get Lost in Spy Caper’s Meta Hall of Mirrors
Director Matthew Vaughn and screenwriter Jason Fuchs offer up a spoof of espionage antics, with a side order of romance, starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Rockwell.
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‘Kneecap’ Review: A Cheeky Irish Rap Comedy Featuring Michael Fassbender
Like '8 Mile,' this scripted work premiering in Sundance's NEXT sidebar tells its stars' own stories, with a big dollop of dramatic license.
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‘The Kitchen’ Review: Daniel Kaluuya’s Directorial Debut Is a Compellingly Dark Futurist Vision of London
Co-helmed by Kibwe Tavares, the closing night gala selection for the BFI London Film Festival is an absorbing study of survival.
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