Toni (Cottin) is raising her five teenage children alone. When her two eldest prepare to go to college, sheconsiders applying to university herself. Ambrosioni’s film does not define motherhood as womanhood but as one aspect of womanhood. In its tender narrative of an unusual coming of age, this film shows that it’s never too late […]
Jason Yu’s tightly plotted and smartly scripted debut is an escalating wild ride into a nightmarish situation: a pregnant Soo-jin (Jung) tries to figure out how to stop her husband’s violent and grotesque sleepwalking behaviours. This horror comedy mystery is as relatable as it is weird, and as scary as it is entertaining. Jung’s presence […]
Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a teenage vampire with an empathy problem. Forced to fend for herself when her parents cut off her blood supply, she meets Paul (Félix-Antoine Bénard), a very suicidal and very depressed boy, who volunteers to be her next meal. Ariane Louis-Seize’s stylish debut is a deadpan horror made charming by the soft […]
With striking black-and-white cinematography and a stylised set design, Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the icy arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I. Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay resurrects forgotten cinematic conventions and is both […]