Tag: Foreign

  • I lost my body (J’ai perdu mon corps)

    I lost my body (J’ai perdu mon corps)

    J’Ai Perdu Mon Corps (I Lost My Body) played during the Milwaukee Film Festival in 2019. I only got to a couple films this year, but it’s always a joy to attend. I Lost My Body will be streaming on Netflix in November, 2019. – – – – One of the weirdest additions to the…

  • Under the Shadow (زیر سایه‎)

    Under the Shadow (زیر سایه‎)

    The “haunted house” trope – an abandoned Victorian mansion sitting alone in the middle of a great estate or a crumbling castle on a rain-swept hillside – has been urbanized over the last thirty years. Our modern cities don’t have enough noise and technology to keep ghosts away. Candyman sets a vengeful spirit among Chicago‘s…

  • Let The Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)

    Let The Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)

    Let the Right One In is a foreign, art-house, vampire film starring a bunch of weird-looking Swedish kids. But also it’s a haunting look at isolation, childhood trauma and intimacy somewhere in the hazy realm between friendship and first love. Stark and matter-of-fact about its subject matter (Swedish vampires), this minimalist film was good enough…