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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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…
Blue Caftan, The (2022): Dir. Maryam Touzani
Feat. Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui; A rare peek into Moroccan culture, and the dying craft of hand-made caftans that are painstakingly embroidered with a needle and thread. And it’s also about sex, brought into sharper relief when a maleem and his wife take on an apprentice at their tailoring business. Deliberately paced and sensually…
Saint Omer (2022): Dir. Alice Diop
Feat. Guslagie Malanda, Kayije Kagame; Inspired by real events, this devastating fictional drama from French-Senegalese director Alice Diop delivers a formally brilliant treatise on post-colonialism and the burdens of motherhood. Guslagie Malanda is a mesmerizing presence as a recent migrant on trial for the murder of her infant baby, her…
Holy Spider (2022): Dir. Ali Abbasi
Feat. Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani; An astonishing new film from Ali Abbasi, who makes good on the promise of his head-turning Danish troll drama “Border” (2018). This one takes him back to his native Iran for a gripping crime thriller based on a story of an ordinary family man who murdered a series of sex workers in the name of…
Close (2022): Dir. Lukas Dhont
Feat. Eden Dambrine, Léa Drucker, Kevin Janssens; Another closely-observed Belgian drama that, along with "Playground", explores a traumatic rite-of-passage. Here the protagonists are adolescents who share an intense friendship, but one that is cut short before it might have developed into anything more. Dir. Lukas Dhont made a splash with the trans drama…
Passengers of the Night, The (2021): Dir. Mikhaël Hers
Feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Noée Abita, Emmanuelle Beart…; Left by her husband, Elisabeth finds herself alone, responsible for the day-to-day care of her two children. She picks up a job on a night-time radio show, where she meets Talulah, a youngster she decides to take under her wing.
Paris, 13th District (2021): Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Noémie Merlant, Makita Samba, Lucie Zhang…; Jacques Audiard’s film charts the interwoven relationships between four twenty-somethings, beautifully played by Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Savages lead singer Jehnny Beth and Noémie Merlant from Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and co-written by that film’s director, Céline Sciamma.