France Archives | Dog And Wolf

★★★★, Belgium, Cannes Film Festival 2022, France, London Film Festival 2022, Netflix, Netherlands, oscars, out now, ReviewsFebruary 27, 2023

Close (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Close by Lukas Dhont (Girl) is a heartbreaking film of two boys’ friendship.

★★★, Argentina, Berlin Film Festival 2023, France, out now, Reviews, San SebastiánFebruary 19, 2023

Berlinale 2023 Review: El Castillo (2023) (The Castle)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Berlinale presents San Sebastián award winner El Castillo (The Castle) a strangely moving mixture of documentary and fiction by Martin Benchimol.

★★★★, Black filmmakers, Female Filmmakers, France, out now, Reviews, Venice Biennale 2022January 30, 2023

Saint Omer (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Saint Omer by Alice Diop is a harrowing and haunting political drama about the complexities of being a Black woman and the pressures of motherhood, inspired by real events.

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Denmark, Drama, France, Germany, Mubi, out nowJanuary 19, 2023

Holy Spider (Ankabut-e moqaddas) (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Holy Spider, angrily written and directed by Ali Abbasi (Border), is a grisly, reality-based story of violence against women in a patriarchal, theocratic society.

★★★, Black filmmakers, Canada, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Female Filmmakers, France, London Film Festival 2021, out now, Reviews, Rwanda, USANovember 3, 2022

Neptune Frost (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Neptune Frost, a visionary collaboration between poet/artist Saul Williams and actress and playwright Anisia Uzeyman, is a unique Afro-futurist political musical filmed in Rwanda.

★★★★, Alexa Dalby, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Curzon Home Cinema, France, Germany, Greece, London Film Festival 2022, Palme d'Or, Reviews, Sweden, Turkey, UKOctober 29, 2022

Triangle of Sadness (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Ôstland’s second Palme d’or winner, is an uncompromising black contemporary satire.

★★★★, Belgium, Cannes Film Festival 2021, Curzon Home Cinema, France, out now, ReviewsJune 14, 2022

Everything Went Fine (2021) (Tout s’est bien passé)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Everything Went Fine by François Ozon is a tender, surprisingly darkly humorous look at euthanasia and family relationships.

Cannes Film Festival 2022, France, ReviewsMay 17, 2022

Cannes Film Festival 2022 Day 1: Opening Film Coupez! (Final Cut) 2022

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival Day 1: Opening Film Coupez! (Final Cut) 2022 – the Opening Film Out of Competition is Final Cut directed by Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist).

★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2021, Curzon Home Cinema, France, Morocco, music, On Demand, out now, ReviewsApril 29, 2022

Casablanca Beats (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
In Casablanca Beats, director Nabil Ayouch blurs the line between fiction and documentary in the exhilarating story of a charismatic group of young would-be rappers in Morocco.

★★★★★, Argentina, festivals, France, London Film Festival 2021, out now, Reviews, SwitzerlandOctober 27, 2021

Azor (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Azor, Andra Fontana’s subtle, sophisticated feature debut, unsettles with an increasing sense of dread as a Swiss banker is enveloped in the Argentinian junta’s heart of darkness.

★★★★, Argentina, Berlin Film Festival 2021, France, London Film Festival 2021, out now, SwitzerlandOctober 13, 2021

BFI LFF 2021: Azor (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Azor, Andra Fontana’s subtle, sophisticated feature debut, unsettles with an increasing sense of dread as a Swiss banker is enveloped in the Argentinian junta’s heart of darkness.