Venice: One of the few female filmmakers to break out of Bangladesh, Rubaiyat Hossain’s fourth feature resists genre categorizations. But it makes a meal of a creepy urban myth the director heard as a seven-year-old girl involving a now-shuttered elite beauty salon in Dhaka.
Writer/director Sophia Takal again turns her lens on her own craft — and all the people and their perversions within it — with another of […]
Broadly speaking, great works of Russian literature have a tendency to combine painfully austere themes with strangely rich imaginations. That rapturous clash, filtered through the […]
Cinematographer Marine Atlan‘s feature film directorial debut “La Gradiva” takes a simple premise — teenagers on a class trip — and uses it to explore […]