Foreign Cinema

Films from corners of the world where the audio language track or original language track is other than English. English subtitles are customary, and denoted where applicable.

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Anatomy of a Fall (2023): Dir. Justine Triet
Feat. Sandra Huller, Swann Arlaud, Jehnny Beth…; An extraordinary, multi-layered dramatic thriller from France that deservingly won the Palm D'or at Cannes. For the past year, Sandra, a German writer, her French husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead…
The Origin of Evil (2022): Dir. Sebastien Marnier
Feat. Laure Calamy; A black comedy thriller from France about riches, bitches and patriarchal pricks, because when it comes to money all bets are off and all knives come out. Laure Calamy plays a woman of little means who reaches out to meet her biological father who welcomes her with open arms and happens to be rolling in…
EO (2022): Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski; Veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski returns with this Cannes Jury Prize-winner — a unique, visually expressive and sometimes bleak portrait of modern Europe through the eyes of an adorable, innocent donkey.
Annie's Fire (2022): Dir. Blandine Lenoir
Feat. Laure Calamy, Pascale Arbillot, Josiane Balasko…; Laure Calamy again proves she's one of the most likeable actresses in French cinema as a working mother who finds her people among those offering illegal but safe abortions on the brink of its legalization in 1973. As well as getting the look-and-feel of the period right, the film seems to have an…
Godland (2022): Dir. Hlynur Pálmason
Feat. Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson; A masterly work of slow cinema from Iceland, inspired by 19th-Century period photography in both narrative and style, and the contemporary influence of Werner Herzog. Elliott Crosset Hove plays a Danish priest and photographer sent on a god-awful mission to establish a parish on the far side of…
Let the River Flow (2023): Dir. Ole Giaever
Feat. Ella Marie Haetta Isaksen, Ivar Beddari, Gard Emil; A superbly-crafted and moving indigenous rights drama about a young teacher whose repressed Sami heritage is awakened by a protest group who oppose the damming of a local river in 1970s Norway. The film hardly shows the river itself but instead harnesses its colossal power as a metaphor – uncovering…
One Fine Morning (2022): Dir. Mia Hansen-Love
Feat. Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud…; Lea Seydoux is French movie star royalty but she keeps it real in this sublime film from Mia Hansen-Løve (Bergman Island), one of Europe’s most prolific and respected female auteurs. She plays a thirty-something solo mother and translator who finds herself tethered to two men – a hunky married one…