Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’ Renders Queer Desire Against the Machinery of War
The film, for all its faults, subverts hyper-masculine war tropes to focus on intimacy, queer desire and art as a tool of survival.
Drama Movies
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Screening at Cannes: Marine Atlan’s ‘La Gradiva’
The Cannes Critics' Week selection (and Grand Prix winner) marks the feature debut of Atlan, who crafts an enormously affecting tale of volatile youths and their most thorny self-discoveries.
Screening at Cannes: Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Bitter Christmas’
Despite its name, this is less a holiday movie and more of a Pirandello-inflected meditation on storytelling, creativity and the sometimes morally dubious origins of inspiration.
