Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki follows her charming melodrama Caramel with a full fledged feminist comedy. Where Do We Go Now? is an audacious film replete with fantasy musical sequences.
Jordan writes: ” What the world needs now is a good film that details just how hashish and blonde exotic dancers are the true road map to sectarian peace in Lebanon, but it looks like we’ll have to wait for the next one.
Where Do We Go Now? is currently playing in theaters in limited release.Read Jordan’s review.
Review: Where Do We Go Now? originally appeared on About.com World / Independent Film on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 at 09:31:43.
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At only 109 minutes, Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Elena trades in the hefty moral issues familiar to Russian Literature and, therefore, demands to leave an imprint. The Russian filmmaker’s first film The Return was sparse, deliberate and patiently observed. His second, however, seems almost like a rebuke. Nadezhda Markina stars in the title role.
Elena is currently playing in theaters. Read Jordan Hoffman’s review.
Review: Elena originally appeared on About.com World / Independent Film on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 at 09:32:16.
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Directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano hope to tug on your heartstrings with The Intouchables, the story of a disabled wealthy French man who hires a Black Muslim ex-con as his caretaker. But as Jordan Hoffman writes: “even the French can make nauseating pap.” Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy star.
The Intouchables opens in theaters this Friday. Read the review.
Review: The Intouchables originally appeared on About.com World / Independent Film on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 at 09:33:11.
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There are a great many subcategories under the wide umbrella of “world and independent films” — bootstrap productions with five figure budgets, Oscar-baiting grand-scale foreign language films, and low budget horror flick with no stars. Jordan Hoffman gives you his permission to skip Alexandre Courtes’ Asylum Blackout, a movie about lunatics in an insane asylum wreaking bloody havoc with all the good will in the world.
Asylum Blackout is currently playing in theaters in limited release and is available on VOD. Read Jordan’s review.
Review: Asylum Blackout originally appeared on About.com World / Independent Film on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 13:10:28.
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Jordan Hoffman made a marvelous discovery at the Sarasota Film Festival: the unconventionally beautiful actress Kate Lyn Sheil. She appeared in four films at the independent film festival, including Kris Swanberg’s Empire Builder. The striking indepdendent film, about a young mother that starts an affair in a house in the woods, brought to mind the works of none other than Abbas Kiarastomi.
Read Jordan’s review.
Review: Empire Builder originally appeared on About.com World / Independent Film on Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 07:01:08.
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Mia Hansen-Love’s Goodbye First Love is a melancholic movie about young lovers. Camille (Lola Creton) is only fifteen years old when she falls in love with Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky). His love, he claims passionately, is equally intense – and yet, he has wanderlust. His love for Camille is a burden, a hindrance, and though he can’t be without her, he often goes makes just that choice.
Mia Hansen-Love’s second film, after the remarkable Father of My Children, seems less ambitious, focusing on a much smaller story. Scenes are beautifully rendered and the film is gorgeous to look at. Camillle, especially, is always interesting to behold. Goodbye First Love is currently playing in theaters. Read Marcy’s review.
Review: Goodbye First Love originally appeared on About.com World / Independent Film on Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 07:03:28.
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Damsels in Distress, Whit Stillman’s much awaited return to cinema, is a genuine charmer. Greta Gerwig shines as Violet, leader of a group of college coeds at a Seven Oaks College.
Damsels in Distress is currently playing in theaters in limited release. Read Jordan Hoffman’s rave review.
Review: Damsels in Distress, originally appeared on About.com World / Independent Film on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 at 21:33:40.
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Watching Lee Hirsch’s Bully is not easy. Overwhelmingly painful is more apt. And yet, this documentary should be seen by every school kid (particularly grades 5-12), every parent, caretaker, and anyone employed in any capacity by a school. You can’t help but feel outraged. And that’s the film’s purpose.
After a highly publicized struggle with the MPAA, the Weinstein documentary has been released without a rating. Bully is currently in theaters. Read Jessica West’s impassioned review.
Review: Bully originally appeared on About.com World / Independent Film on Sunday, April 1st, 2012 at 05:45:52.
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After seeing Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s horror film Intruders, our intrepid film critic had only one question: What happened to Clive Owen? He stars as John Farrow, a father whose daughter Mia (yes, really, Mia Farrow) is assaulted in their own home. Intruders, writes Hoffman, is “a horror film with no discernible scares, dumb characters and a rancid script.”
Intruders opens this Friday. Read Jordan Hoffman’s review.
Review: Intruders originally appeared on About.com World / Independent Film on Friday, March 30th, 2012 at 04:05:09.
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Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue SeaThe Deep Blue Sea is based on a well-regarded play by Terence Rattigan. The film is so evocative of doomed British romance films of the WWII era that film critic Jordan Hoffman found himself making excuses for its dated qualities. Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston star.
The Deep Blue Sea opens this Friday. Read our review.
Review: The Deep Blue Sea originally appeared on About.com World / Independent Film on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 17:26:16.
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