With Faces, Places, 89-year-old powerhouse Agnès Varda teams with world-famous young street artist JR to make a film as wide-ranging as it is personal, as fanciful as it is pointed. Setting off on French country roads to find subjects for JR’s … Continue reading
An influential classic of experimental documentary filmmaking. As an ethnographic film, Moi, un Noir was revolutionary in its attempt to address the problem of the ethnographer (nearly always a white man) filming subjects (nearly always people of color) objectified and stripped of … Continue reading
Eighteen-year-old Farah is butting heads with her mother over her all-night, beer-fueled outings with a new boyfriend and her refusal to enroll at medical school so she can pursue her dream of singing in a band. Set in Tunisia in … Continue reading
Paris-based Chilean director Patricio Guzmán is a master of documentary and essay films. The film traces Chile’s history of violence through a pearl button that connects the heartbreaking tale of the extermination of Patagonia’s native water nomads with the fate … Continue reading
[Drama] Beautifully shot, frustrating, vibrant, fun, heartbreaking, and electric, Girlhood is a stunning and intimate exploration of female adolescence and friendship in the immigrant banlieues (suburbs) of Paris. The film is unsentimental in its portrayal of the way its subject, 16-year-old … Continue reading
BPM (Beats per Minute) A fictionalized account Act Up- Paris, which fought for recognition of the HIV/AIDS crisis at a time when a diagnosis was a death sentence, BPM is a remarkable testament to the power of citizens to effect … Continue reading
