By Michael Roddy Teenaged Sara (Florence Hunt, winsome) has a question for her mother Amanda (Juliette Binoche, superb) after they walk in on octogenerian Martin (Tom Courtenay, ditto) having sex with his dementia-stricken wife, Amanda's mom Leslie (Anne Calder-Marshall, convincing) in the elderly couple's north London townhouse. How, at his age, does he perform the…Read more Courtenay, Binoche, shine in Berlinale dementia film “Queen at Sea”
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Hüller superb as 17th-century woman passing as man in “Rose”
By Michael Roddy Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”, "Toni Erdmann") gives a textbook performance of subtlety and craft as the titular character in the Berlinale competition film “Rose”, based on the true story of a woman who dressed and passed as a man not in the modern-day metrosexual world, but in the strictly gendered…Read more Hüller superb as 17th-century woman passing as man in “Rose”
“La Cocina” looks at illegal immigrants through a kitchen lens
Rooney Mara as Julia and Raúl Briones as Pedro in "La Cocina" Once in a while a film comes along that is so audacious and outrageous it takes your breath away. One such was the 2014 Argentine film “Wild Tales”, a series of vignettes in one of which two male drivers fight to their deaths…Read more “La Cocina” looks at illegal immigrants through a kitchen lens
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