Seventh Row’s editors pick the twenty best unreleased films of 2021 so far, from CODA (Sian Heder) to I’m Your Man (Maria Schrader) and more.
Essays
The 20 best films of 2021 (so far)
Seventh Row’s editors pick the twenty best films of 2021 so far, from Moffie (Oliver Hermanus) to True Mothers (Naomi Kawase) and more.
The Surrogate: Jasmine Batchelor stuns in a smart, thorny exploration of surrogacy
Jasmine Batchelor gives one of the best performances of the year in Jeremy Hersh’s The Surrogate, a smart and sensitive drama about a pregnancy surrogate who finds out the foetus will be born with Down Syndrome.
Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl) finds a new angle on life under fascism
Sandrine Kiberlain’s feature debut, Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl), is the story of an aspiring Parisian actress living under the Nazi occupation.
An alternate Cannes Film Festival
For those of us not on the Croisette this week, Seventh Row programmes an alternate Cannes Film Festival 2021.
Scenes from an Empty Church: Onur Tukel’s melancholy pandemic comedy
In Scenes from an Empty Church, two NYC Catholic priests reckon with their faith in the face of a deadly pandemic.