Frame rate: a long-awaited translation of the late French critic’s writings reveals a fascination with what’s included in the frame and what’s left out, and the moral and political stakes of that choice
Light work: the Japanese filmmaker’s tireless curiosity allowed him ever new and different angles from which to tackle questions about the singularity of each cinematic moment
Form and function: Kiro Russo’s El gran movimiento weaves together bravura camerawork and a simple story about a mysteriously ill laborer to create a pulsating portrait of La Paz, Bolivia
Flickering myth: at a plein air cinema up in the Greek mountains, cine-pilgrims gather every four years for the ongoing premiere of Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios
Love on the rocks: Both Sides of the Blade is Claire Denis’ latest exploration of the dissonances between body and language—or, as critic Leo Goldsmith puts it, “discourse and meatspace”
Together forever: Alice Diop’s We is an associative tour of working-class suburbs, a meditation on the varying visions of French nationalism, and a grappling with the slippery politics of representing the underrepresented
Old ways: Qiu Jiongjiong’s first fiction feature a portrait of the artist as a historical being, subject to all the contingencies of material existence
Flying high: the last few days of Cannes contained many of this year’s high points, including Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, Albert Serra’s Pacifiction, and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
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