Bulgaria
While Subservience knows how to deploy its star, it still can’t fully live up to the promise of this meta-premise or her talents as a performer.
“Young Woman and the Sea” proves it could be a serviceable movie but not strong enough to escape the routine assembly of the genre’s trappings.
At a solid 93 minutes, director Oliver Park’s The Offering is a quick and creepy watch.
Shot in stark, high-contrast black and white, Fear is a no-frills film that relies on the strength of its script and central performances.
Ága shows how native practices of conservation, sustainable living, and a deep and respectful connection to the land is all but withering away in the face of our technological acceleration.
We Die Young has sporadic moments of action greatness, but feels overlong even with a brisk 90 minute runtime.
Western is Valeska Grisebach’s homage to the classic genre, focusing on a group of German construction workers in Bulgaria while playing with themes of overt masculinity and identity.
People often tend to demarcate their lives by coordinating them with macro-narratives. For instance, the segment of your life that took place during the George W. Bush administration, or the Vietnam war.