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Family dynamics, friendship, and isolation as a choice: Kôji Fukada’s Love Life observes the effects of a late-in-life return of an impoverished, addled father. Martin McDonagh returns, five years after the great Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, with The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Even the seemingly happy husband-and-wife couple in Alex Schaad’s Skin Deep will have to question the foundations of their relationship as they visit a remote island. Don’t Worry Darling is Olivia Wilde’s second film, starring Harry Styles, and a psychological thriller packed with mysteries and silence set in the darkest years of the Cold War. Of very different tones are the day’s Orizzonti entries: Innocence by Guy Davidi and To the North by Mihai Mincan are both about the need to break rules that are uselessly strict.
Taeko leads a tranquil life – she is happily married with Jiro and she has a child and a good job. Her quasi-idyllic routine is torn apart when Park, Taeoko’s child biological father, shows up. Park is an unstable, violent person, but Taeko won’t turn her back on him and...
Pádraic and Colm live in a remote Irish island. They have been friends for long and share the slow rhythm of a life that doesn’t offer much relevance. One day, though, Colm decides to end their friendship, giving Pádraic no real reason. Their community is forced to take si...
Leyla and Tristan are a young and carefree couple until they decide to leave for a mysterious and far-away island. An identity game will change their perceptions, their sexuality and their sense of self, questioning their relationship and the life they have lived up to that mo...
“Everybody treats me as if I’m crazy, but I’m not”. These are Alice’s words in Olivia Wilde’s latest film. Suspense, rhythm, plot twist, empathic tension, and narrative vertigo make this movie a psychological thriller building upon unreliable parallel realities. Ca...
Inspired by a true story, Innocence is a window on the life of Israeli youth. The government forces them to make a choice: to be a part of society by doing their mandated military server, or follow their moral principles and risk social isolation. The consequences of ...
Inspired by a real story, this psychological thriller follows Dimitru, a young Romanian clandestine aboard a cargo ship crossing the Atlantic. With him is a copy of the Bible, which will save his life when he is discovered by Joel, a Filipino crew. Joel risks his job for helpi...
The film combines Pope Francis’ travels with his parables in a work commissioned to director Gianfranco Rosi who, while reluctant at first, ended up growing passionate about the material and examining hundreds of hours of footage. In his nine years as Pope, Francis visited o...
