Milo
Stars Marion Cotillard and Théodore Pellerin turn director Nicole Garcia’s well-crafted French drama ‘Milo’ (‘7H40 ce matin-là’) into an absorbing and ultimately moving story set in post-revolutionary times.
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Author: Deborah Young
In My Father’s Room
In her first feature film, best-selling novelist Maha Harada captures the quiet grace of Japanese traditions from art to poetry, cherry blossoms to the tea ceremony, avoiding cliché with an evocative sensibility and a modern sense of humor.
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Tender Loving Care
Small but engrossing, Mike Leigh’s ‘Tender Loving Care’ casts a harsh light on the underfunded British health and welfare system, which divides even death unequally into its haves and have-nots.
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My Sad Dead
Grotesque, trippy psychological horror abounds along with redundancies in the feature film of Pablo Larrain’s ‘My Sad Dead’, a mixed bag of ghost stories set in contemporary Buenos Aires and an angry guide to Argentina’s social ills, laced with funeral humor.
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The Ballet Lesson
An absent father returns to take his two small children to their missing mother in a simple tale that blossoms into complexities about life and death like a piece of origami in Kazuya Murayama’s charming if at times overreaching ‘The Ballet Lesson’.
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