This fascinating documentary with its intriguing title is the bitter-sweet story of Rosario “Charin” Suárez a Cuban ballerina hailed by many as the best of her generation. Her tale starts when Fidel Castro first came to power in 1959 and he invited Alicia Alonso the country’s leading prima ballerina and her husband Fernando to establish … Continue reading
Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra is following up his 2013 breakout hit The Lunchbox with his sophomore feature and his first in English with an adaption of Julian Barnes’s Booker award winning novel The Sense of an Ending. This is the quintessential British tale of a retired middle-class man who settled for a mundane life rather than … Continue reading
Guillermo del Toro’s flawless adult fairy tale is unquestionably one of the most enchanting screen romances of the year. This story of the demure mute cleaning woman who finds a kindred spirit in the merman creature whom she rescues from the secret Government laboratory where she works, is a joyous tale of hope and love … Continue reading
For his seventh feature film acclaimed Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov has adapted a stage play by the German writer Marius von Mayenburg that takes a hefty swipe at religious fanaticism with this tale of Veniamin (Pyotr Skvortsov) a rebellious newly-devout teenager who is literally determined to make life hell for everyone else who he thinks are sinners. … Continue reading
On paper this very pared-down thriller that happens at the end of the Iraq war and which is essentially a two-handed story would seem like a tough sell, but in the hands of director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) and with a tour-de-force performance from Brit actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the result is a stunning riveting … Continue reading