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MOTHER!, DARREN ARONOFSKY (2017) Aneil Karia: I know it’s a bit Marmite – it got some stinking reviews and some great ones. It’s highly stressful, and you’re taken to a state of high anxiety and suspense. But I actually found it almost giddily thrilling, because I just admired its decision to go to such a bonkers place and never let you go. It’s complex, because it’s not necessarily enjoyable. If you’re in an edgy place, maybe you need to browse romcoms on Netflix. But when you’re in the right place, these films are an exercise in grabbing the viewer and completely defining t...

Á Nos Amours changed its name from  Suzanne just ahead of its theatrical release. Courtesy of Curzon “I was lucky to be 19 when I directed it, because I had clear ideas on adolescence,” says Lindon, who is now 20, over Zoom from Paris in the middle of April. “Sometimes when you watch movies about young people by adults, they write about what they remember, and it’s beautiful to have their memories. But I wanted to give my point of view of that age, because it’s a complicated period when you discover yourself, and when you’re more interested in fantasies than real life.

When tensions topple into violence,  Black Bear suddenly snaps into a new chapter called “Part Two: The Bear by the Boat House”. Allison remains at the cabin – then the camera pulls out to reveal she’s an actor on a film set. In this dimension, Gabe is a director and Allison’s romantic partner; to psychologically torture Allison, Gabe hints at an affair with her co-star, Blair. Same actors, no explanation; a storytelling trick unlocking the movie-deciphering part of your brain. I ask Plaza for permission to reveal this transformation in the article. “Even if you say what happens...

Petzold was advised by friends to include an introductory text outlining the fable. Still, the director refused. “Nobody knows the undine myth,” he says. “In Germany, too, they know the word ‘undine’, they know it’s something to do with water nymphs, but they don’t know the story behind it. And when you don’t know something and it’s surrounding you, you have to work.” He compares it to the westerns he consumed as a child that were based on Greek myths and Bible stories he’d not yet been taught. “I like movies that don’t explain it concretely.”

“Even if Quo Vadis, Aida? is a film about the past, I think it tells us a lot about our present, especially for my region,” Žbanić informs me, in early April, over Zoom from her home in Sarajevo. “So many things here are denied. Many people say this genocide never happened. But also, in the world, so many things are putting democracy in danger. I watched the riots in Congress in the US, and thought: this is how war in Bosnia started. There were people who didn’t agree with democratic decisions, and then, with violence, they took over certain institutions and made war.”