Arabian Nights is the blind men’s elephant: miniseries and short story cycle, documentary and fantasy, proletarian and prohibitive. It’s an enormous six-hour movie split into three volumes, made up mostly of separate smaller stories.
Essays
Fatima is a tender look at making a home in a new land
Fatima meditates on language barriers and what it takes to become French.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema preview
Running from March 3 to 13, the NYC festival gives viewers a sneak peek at this year’s most exciting French titles.
Sandy Powell’s costumes in Carol tell what words can’t
Costume designer Sandy Powell showed how two starkly different women refashion one another into a perfect match.
The politics of sisterhood in Mustang
Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s directorial debut, charts five sisters’ resistance, as they both grow into and reject a narrow notion of womanhood. But Ergüven privileges perspectives that a Western audience can understand and approve of, making the story too familiar and incomplete.
Canada’s Top Ten has strong films but lacks imagination
Canada’s Top Ten of 2015 represents a very strong slate of films. Yet it doesn’t quite reflect the diversity and originality of Canadian films last year.