(2022, 1h 39m, Spain, Thriller by Carlota Pereda) An overweight teenager named Sara faces relentless bullying from her peers in a suffocatingly hot Spanish village. Following a particularly cruel encounter at a local swimming pool, a strange sequence of events flips her world upside down, plunging her into a sudden nightmare that will alter the […]
(2018, 2h 15m, Mexico, Drama by Alfonso Cuarón) 3 Oscars, 256 wins. This semi-autobiographical black-and-white drama follows the life of Cleo, a young indigenous Mixteca domestic worker caring for an upper-middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City. The film serves as an intimate chronicle of domestic life interwoven with personal tragedies and systemic social upheavals. Alfonso […]
(2023, 2h 21m, Ireland, UK, Hungary US, Fantasy/Comedy by Yorgos Lanthimos). 4 Oscars, 112 wins. Yorgos Lanthimos delivers a breathtakingly surreal and visually opulent dark comedy that reimagines the Frankenstein myth through a kaleidoscopic, steampunk lens. This visually stunning odyssey follows Bella Baxter, a reanimated woman with a child's brain, as she breaks free from […]
(2020, 2h, Denmark, Comedy by Thomas Vinterberg) 1 Oscar, 60 wins. Four high school teachers experiment with maintaining a constant blood alcohol level to cure their midlife burnout, with initially euphoric but ultimately dark results. Director Thomas Vinterberg uses a naturalistic, handheld cinematography style with realistic lighting that shifts from static and drab to kinetic […]
(2023 2hr 4m, Japan Drama/Narrative by Wim Wenders, co-written with Takuma Takasaki). 1 Oscar, 50 wins. A quiet Tokyo toilet cleaner finds profound joy in a life stripped down to cassettes, paperbacks, and the sunlight filtering through trees. Wim Wenders captures this serene world through an intimate, square aspect ratio and patient, observational camerawork that […]