When the past and the future are forbidden, life in isolation becomes controlled repetition in Italian director Emanuela Rossi’s first feature film Buio (Darkness). Three sisters live a post-apocalyptic life in a large rambling house. Their father (Valerio Binasco) leaves them daily, returning at 7 pm on the dot with the spoils of his foraging... Continue Reading →
Perspective is everything in Laura Casabé’s film Los Que Vuelven (The Returned). Julia (María Soldi) is the wife of a landowner Mariano (Alberto Ajaka), in 1919 Argentina. She hasn’t been able to have a live birth. When her third child dies, she begs her indigenous housekeeper Kerana (Lali González), to take her to a mountain... Continue Reading →
I don't think the word bleak covers the amount of quiet anguish in Sabrina Mertens' riveting debut film Fellwechselzeit (Time of Moulting). Stephanie (Zelda Espenschied and Miriam Schiweck as the teenage Stephanie) lives with her parents in 1970s Germany. As a girl, she is close to her mother (Freya Kreutzkam), who is depressed and cares... Continue Reading →
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