Like the queasily dated Whatever Works — a film Allen wrote in the 1970s — Cafe Society insists on archaic gender politics.
Vogueing at Berlinale: Kiki and Strike a Pose
Despite being a rather niche subject, two films about vogueing competed in the Panorama Documentary section at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Interview: Chloé Leriche on Before the Streets and indigenous cinema
Canadian director Chloé Leriche discusses bringing the Atikamekw language and community to the big screen for the first time at this year’s Berlinale.
Anne Zohra Berrached on 24 Weeks at Berlinale
Director Anne Zohra Berrached discusses 24 Weeks — her Berlinale Competition film about a couple who must decide whether to have a late abortion when they discover their child will have Down Syndrome — about the challenges of the subject matter and why she wanted non-professional actors for some of the parts.
Being 17 is more Sciamma’s than Techiné’s film
Berlinale correspondent Elena Lazic reviews Being 17. Although it was written by Céline Sciamma and directed by André Techiné, it’s got Sciamma’s fingerprints all over it.
Things to Come is a less damning portrait of misfortune than Eden
Berlinale correspondent Elena Lazic examines how Mia Hansen-Løve’s last two films, Eden and L’Avenir (Things to Come), reverse-engineer seemingly cliched stories in order to find the emotional truth and realism buried within them.