A young artist develops a romantic connection with the woman she was hired to paint a portrait of in Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is a young painter, who travels to an island in eighteenth-century Brittany, where she is hired by La Comtesse (Valeria Golino) to paint a portrait of her…
This review may contain SPOILERS A Pakistani comedian learns to deal with cultural differences as he bonds with his sick girlfriend’s family in The Big Sick. Aspiring comedian Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani) has an awkward relationship with his Pakistani parents Azmat and Sharmeen (Anupam Kher and Zenobia Shroff), who are always introducing Kumail to possible arranged spouses. Meanwhile,…
From filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson (Force of Nature) comes this meditation on the torrential rains of India. Beginning around June of every year, the annual monsoons decent upon India. This incomparably vast weather system affects the country in multiple different ways, including being India’s primary source of water for drinking and farming. Over the course of…
