Author: Deborah Young

Negu Hurbilak

Negu Hurbilak

Posted by | Jun 25, 2024 | , |

At the end of the Basque armed conflict, a young woman waits to flee across the border in ‘Negu Hurbilak’, an atmospheric and rigorously shot but mystifying tale that leaves too much to the viewer’s imagination.

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Backstage

Backstage

Posted by | Jun 23, 2024 | , |

Mysterious personal dramas unfold off-stage when a modern dance company has a bus break-down traveling to Marrakech in Tunisian codirectors Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane’s intelligently avant-garde on-the-road drama, ‘Backstage’.

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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Posted by | May 29, 2024 | , , |

Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck (‘I Am Not Your Negro’) once again makes masterful use of the documentary form as a vehicle for social and political commentary in ‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’, an intense viewing experience that leaves its mark long after the last photo fades.

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The Most Precious of Cargoes

The Most Precious of Cargoes

Posted by | May 25, 2024 | , , |

Michel Hazanavicius’s (‘The Artist’) long-cherished animation project ‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’, bowing in Cannes competition, nimbly combines a classic, grim fairy tale with the horrors of the Holocaust in a well-made but sentimental tale whose audience is unclear.

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