Virginia Woolf’s interior epic “Mrs Dalloway” survives — and thrives — following a surprisingly successful transplantation from London to Lagos in brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri’s…
If Jane Schoenbrun is feeling the pressures of being their generation’s highest-profile trans filmmaker, it shows in only the most enjoyably defiant of ways in Un Certain Regard opener �…
Only a species suffering from terminal main character syndrome would, when describing intimately human experiences like love, reach for the language of global cataclysm. Tsunami, earthquake,…
"I get along without you very well," sings Nina Simone in her beautiful, grazed voice at a pivotal moment in Isabel Coixet's "Three Goodbyes," a glimmering drama adapted from a short story c…
The paperback of "Straight Outta Scotland" by Gavin Bain, which tells the real-life yarn on which James McAvoy's directing debut is based, boasts a cover quote from the patron saint of worki…
Complexity is key to the flavor profile of a good single-malt whisky. Top notes, middle notes and low notes, and different combinations of minerals, spices, smoke and salt make each sip trig…
In the beginning, wars are measured in days. As the days become weeks and months, however, different metrics take over: materiel use; meters of territory won and lost; climbing numbers of ca…
It is said that Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse, the leading lady of the Italian stage in the late 19th/early 20th century, was an intensely private, introverted woman who once told a journalist…
Sex, sexism, aging, celebrity, social class, suicide, churchgoing, anti-Roma bigotry, the emergence of a new geopolitical world order and the now rather tarnished lustre of EU membership: Is…
Bones; earth; worker; murderer. These are not words that any language course would suggest as the basic building blocks for communication in a new tongue. But for Spanish-speaking Teresa (a …
The pleasures and the pitfalls of a hybrid format are both in evidence in French actress-turned-director Romane Bohringer's "Tell Her I Love Her," a plaintive, affecting account of her strug…
It is hard to watch the brutalization of women on screen, especially when you know it is a re-creation of an actual crime. But it is harder still " rightly, valuably so " if you've been made…
Despite evident good intentions, and some excellent interviewees, this is a frustrating effort in many ways, not least of which is its slightly misleading title, which suggests a more contem…