Tag Archives: Gael Garcia Bernal

Old review — Shyamalan goes back to The Village

July 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | Written by Shyamalan, based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre-Oscar Lévy and Frederick Peeters | 108 min | Netflix If you've seen the trailer, you know the premise: A group of people vacationing at an exclusive resort on a tropical island head to a remote beach for the… Read More

Wasp Network review — Spy thriller absent sting

July 6, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Olivier Assayas | Written by Assayas and Fernando Morais, based on Morais' book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War | 127 min | Netflix A historical thriller — and yes, the 1990s is history now — based on a true story of Cuban pilots, defectors to the United States, who joined anti-Castro… Read More

It Must Be Heaven review — Palestinian filmmaker shares deadpan vision

June 18, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Elia Suleiman | 102 min | On Demand Elia Suleiman is a Nazareth-born filmmaker whose work crosses over from dark comedy into absurdity, but with a remarkably light touch. His narratives are a departure from your average cinematic meal, that's for sure, especially when you consider French icon Jacques Tati is… Read More

Ema review — Chilean drama a dazzling dance

May 2, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Pablo Larraín | Written by Guillermo Calderón and Alejandro Moreno | 107 min | Mubi We begin in the aftermath of trauma: Valparaiso marrieds Ema and Gastón (Mariana Di Girolamo and Gael García Bernal) are lead dancer and choreographer in a modern dance company — they're also tearing each other apart over the… Read More

Coco review — Pixar celebrates ancestry and music

December 21, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina | Written by Unkrich, Molina, Jason Katz, and Matthew Aldrich | 109 min If it hasn't happened already, someone should be writing a thesis about Pixar's diamond-hard, perfectly paced storytelling. I'm not talking about the animated cars, the bugs' lives, or even the monsters. I'm talking about the… Read More

Top 10 Under-The-Radar films of 2016

January 17, 2017 flawintheiris

As per usual, plenty of the year’s best cinema found their way to us on platforms other than the Cineplex screens, or if they did show at the multiplex, they often came and went relatively unheralded. It’s the fact of Halifax being a small market: Many quality features won’t find distribution in theatres. Here are… Read More