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Notably, three fresh entries join the competition roster, among them the eagerly awaited animated film ‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ helmed by renowned director Michel Hazanavicius, as confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter - Newsx
Political intrigue, romance, and mystery in a new sci-fi thriller.
Three 2022 Sundance Film Festival films (Call Jane, The Janes, Happening) show what it's like to live in a society without legal abortion.
Roland wants his friend Paul to meet his friend Frederic. They go to Frederic's home, and Roland makes introductions. There is no indication, then or later, of why they should meet. But this and every other moment in the film is colored by Paul's narration, which begins by telling us Frederic has died. If that seems like the film's own built-in spoiler, it isn't quite. It is, however, a canny decision to begin with the news. There's nothing like knowing a character will die to make him more interesting.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is perhaps not as good as it used to be. It's ugly and treacherous, and unabashedly so, in "Capital," a financial thriller set in the highest echelons of France's wealthy and powerful. Veteran director Costa-Gavras, who made his name decades ago with films that sharply addressed political issues—most notably, "Z" and "Missing"—focuses his attention this time on the kind of unscrupulous, unchecked money grab that caused the 2008 economic collapse. Like "Arbitrage" and "Margin Call," which depicted that cataclysmic moment in our recent history, "Capital" f...