In a film environment defined by fast pace, quick cuts, compulsive dialogue and music prompting our emotional responses, Ida’s stillness comes almost as a shock. Apart from the last two… [Continue Reading]
I predict that by the time you will finish reading this post, you will want to know more about Pawel Pawlikowski and see all his films. My own research led… [Continue Reading]
Ida has been described as a masterpiece, made it on the BBC list of the 21st century greatest films, and won the first Oscar for a Polish film. Only a… [Continue Reading]
Corneliu Porumboiu, the son of a soccer referee, is one of the directors who defined the Romanian New Wave. Not often a director gets their first feature film awarded at… [Continue Reading]
‘Everybody is a revolutionary in their own way,’ says Piscoci, the retiree in 12:08 East of Europe. In a plot determined to identify a specific type of hero, his reflection… [Continue Reading]