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I met with Lebanese director Nadine Labaki (Caramel) on Saturday, September 8, 2018, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss her Cannes Jury Prize-winner, Capernaum (original title “Capharnaüm”) (which I also reviewed). The movie, shot with non-actors from Beirut’s […]

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With over 500 hours of footage shot for an eventual two-hour finished movie, it's a masterwork of docudrama production, showcasing this kind of hybrid filmmaking at its best.

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Shiva chooses three families as her main focus – with a lesser-seen fourth in the mix, as well – profiling each in great detail, with an on-screen countdown of months clicking by, one by one.

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It's an odd movie, for sure, but that's Kaurismäki for you.

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A film that is sure to repel the vegetarians and vegans among us, given its close-up focus on sizzling slabs of meat, Barbecue takes us on a global journey through our planet's many different traditions of communal cooking and eating.

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