What's most striking about writer/director Asghar Farhadi's (A Separation, The Salesman) new film, Everybody Knows, even with strong performances and its setting in lush Spanish wine country taken into account, is the language of the thing. And that's not a euphemism, some reference to a ...
Archives for February 15, 2019
Review: Never Look Away
For those of us who pay attention to this sort of thing, this year's contenders for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film are collectively the strongest group of nominees in recent memory. From the masterpiece that is Alfonso Cuaron's Roma to Nadine Labaki's devastatingly ...