One of Brazil's leading classical pianists, Caio Pagano has lived abroad for decades. In "Pagano," he is filmed during a visit to the Teatro Cultura Artística, which was destroyed by a fire in 2008. The film explores his album "Últimos Pensamentos Musicais," which features the final compositions of greats like Liszt, Beethoven, Schumann, and Camargo Guarnieri, among others.
The short documentary and second place winner of the Incluvie Short Film Festival, Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story, challenges any simplistic understanding of trans people.
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
An adventure that centers on freedom and captures viewers' hearts.
While it initially sounds nothing like 'Nope,' the focus on recording/sharing everything—especially trauma—for profit makes Hulu's 'Not Okay' similar to Jordan Peele’s newest movie.
The 1950s lesbian romance is stunning, emotional, restrained, and, simply put, one of the best movies I’ve ever seen depicting a woman-loving-woman (WLW) relationship.
Despite everything it was capable of, all of these poor choices strung together amount to nothing more than a counter-productive film.
