Time seems to stand still while deeply hidden shameful family secrets are exposed and forgiven. There are lyrically beautiful and mysterious goings on in the natural world which seems to be changing direction and going into a more promising direction.

The trajectory of this iconoclastic, visionary and confrontational artist from his beginnings in the 1960s LA art scene punctuated by the Watts riots unleashed a flood of passionate reactions and outpourings among the Black artistic community and brought them together.

It is an impressive directorial debut from Manuela Martelli, a former actor. She creates mood and menace with recurring motifs, such as color and koi fish, but  most powerfully with the music of Mariá Portugal.

It is as if Eliot is asking questions which all of humanity must have had but did not know how to put into words. It feels as if Eliot has written for all of us and Fiennes has spoken for all of us.

The reality presented here is not pretty, but not without it’s gratifying portrayal of true and deep friendship and indelible characters which will not soon leave your consciousness.

The charismatic Yale graduate, champion of the underserved, and effective community organizer, whose tireless efforts to bring together people with radically different points of view have led to impressive outcomes as well as caused him to be both vilified and praised by the left and the right.

A surprise winner of Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year, this film about making a film using non-professional actors has got some new angles, and more importantly, some very winning characters.

“There is so little dialogue that one is engaged in a more cerebral way than the usual film experience provokes. This will linger in the mind.”

“The Forger” is an imminently watchable film that juxtaposes the despondent war-torn and frightened German society with a story of survival and friendship that resonates to this day.

His wife is dripping in diamonds. There is an elegant older couple who grandly claim to manufacture peace keeping products. Those turn out to be hand grenades and land mines.