Hlynur Pálmason is an Icelandic writer and director. For his latest project The Love That Remains, the filmmaker delivers a poignant, domestic drama that observes life’s changes with humor and whimsy, set against the majestic, ever-shifting Icelandic landscape. Pálmason is […]

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While people may recognize him more for his acting, Harris Dickinson blew audiences and critics’ minds at this year’s Cannes Film Festival when he premiered his feature directorial debut, Urchin. Written and directed by Dickinson, the film stars Frank Dillane […]

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Premiering to critical acclaim in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2024, Armand marks the feature debut of Norwegian filmmaker Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel. Set entirely within the labyrinthine corridors of an elementary school after hours, this tense psychological drama follows Elisabeth […]

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(Check out Hannah Tran’s Santosh movie review, in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “There are two types of untouchables in this world,” begins the imperative line of director Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, “one who nobody wants […]

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(Check out Kim Voynar’s Black Dog movie review, in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “Black Dog,”  the latest film by director Guan Hu (The Eight Hundred, The Sacrifice), opens moodily with a languid shot panning […]

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Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to wide acclaim, writer-director Sandhya Suri makes her feature debut with a new kind of police procedural. Santosh follows the titular protagonist (played by Shahana Goswami), a […]

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One of the many distinct voices that broke out at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Molly Manning Walker. The British writer-director premiered her pulsating feature debut How To Have Sex which won the top Un Certain Regard prize. With […]

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Lola Quivoron is a French Writer/Director who graduated from La Femis directing school in 2016. Her first project was a short film titled Au Loin Baltimore. The film played at many festivals including AFI Fest. In 2022, her feature debut […]

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Hlynur Pálmason is an Icelandic writer and director. For his latest project Godland (which I also reviewed) he reunited with Danish actor Elliott Crosset Hove. Pálmason is a graduate from the national film school of Denmark. While Elliott is now […]

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“A lion doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.” Vicky Krieps takes command on the big screen yet again as the real-life 19th-Century Austrian Empress Elizabeth, aka “Sisi” in writer-director Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage. The film premiered at the Cannes […]

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