While our childhood chalet is about to be sold, my friend Édouard watches over his father Éric, whose health is declining. Through the complicit gaze of a childhood friend, this documentary focuses on this fragile moment when the roles are reversed, when the child in turn becomes a parent. It modestly explores how love persists when everything else fades. A tender portrait of ordinary resilience and the connections that remain when all that remains is silence and memories.
If you’re also a major fan of the familiar strangers story between two people of different generations, here are 5 underrated films you probably haven’t heard of, but might thoroughly enjoy.
Meander, released in 2021, is a French gory horror film featuring a woman trapped in small spaces as she fights for her life, paralleling real pandemic life.
The differences in these films could not be more blatant, and yet Gus Van Sant has found a way to portray the same messages and use the same techniques in each.
Sam Levinson's latest film can't keep up with the excellence of its performances.
The film didn’t have to be as long as it is. It just dragged on and on with scenes that had no substance. Every so often we get an action scene, and even those isn’t that fun.
This sports drama movie is centered around an Asian American boy named Chang.
