Imagine a film in which an SS officer explains the operational plan of the Holocaust to a Jew, describes the crimes of political purges to a communist, presents the future concentration camps to a Roma person or a homosexual. Imagine that this very same officer...
Jacmel is a city in southeastern Haiti, one of the poorest cities in the world, inhabited by some of the poorest people on the planet. In 2010, it was devastated by an earthquake that destroyed what little infrastructure existed, paving the way for even greater...
Is cinema a form of sleight of hand? Why shouldn't it be? After all, its very effects, its ability to create illusions in order to reveal reality, are among the elements that distinguish cinema and make it such a popular and widely loved art form....
The lives of teenagers in cinema are usually written by adults. Everyone has been through that stage of life, yet no adult experiences society, the contemporary moment, at that age. And in a context where the pace of social change is constantly accelerating, such an...
In a world where political and social developments increasingly tend to resemble processes that the generations alive today have known only through the accounts of their elders and the history books, what is the role of cinema, and of art more broadly, in speaking in...
What materials make up a life? What role do maturity, experiences, memories, and stimuli play in building a world in which one will spend the years given to them? How does one choose what is worth it from the infinite possibilities of experiences? How far...
Saeed Roustayi's film, for better or worse, is a reflection of its time. More specifically, not only of its time but of an entire generation that finds itself in a world it doesn't understand what's wrong and has grown enough to have the right, the...
In the early 1960s, François Truffaut had already declared war on the traditionalism of French cinema, with the declaration that officially opened the doors of art history to the Nouvelle Vague. As a critic, he had denounced the easy path of cinematic Frenchness, which, by...
The Palme d’Or of 2022 was the magnifying glass that History needs, in order for someone to focus on a very small scale, on micro-societies, and to understand the laws of social development on a larger scale. Of course, being an artistic work, apart from...
I decided to share a conversation in a few pages, the kind of conversation I would have leaving a cinema, conversations that are missing, along with films that are missing. Can art, as we move away from the great ideological ruptures of the 20th century,...
Pride, directed by Matthew Warchus, is a profoundly instructive political narrative, rich in remarkably apt symbolism. Released in 2014 and screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Pride also received nominations at the Golden Globes and the BAFTA Awards. The British film tells a true story...