Oscar 2025: Which Live-Action Short Will Take Home Gold?
As usual the five Oscar-nominated short films were a great mix of stories from around the world, each tackling compelling themes with unique styles. Read on to know which was my favourite and which one will most likely win. The first film, The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent by Nebojsa Slijepcevic, takes place in […]
Emilia Pérez: A French Director’s Daring Trans Musical in Spanish
Film Review by Julian Liurette, Toronto, January 28, 2025* I just re-watched Emilia Pérez, the latest film by French director and screenwriter Jacques Audiard, on Netflix—though I first saw it two months ago at the TIFF Lightbox in Toronto. Even then, I knew I had witnessed something unconventional: a musical about a notorious drug cartel […]
The film Nickel Boys: A Bold POV Experiment That Doesn’t Quite Hit the Mark
Nickel Boys is a film directed by RaMell Ross and adapted from the book by Colson Whitehead. The film tells its story visually and audibly through the perspective of its main characters, something reminiscent of Son of Saul which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2015. Advances in camera technology make such technical […]
Thoughts written in Spanish on Parallel Mothers, Almodóvar’s latest uneven but thought provoking film
Mis reflexiones después de haber visto la nueva película de Pedro Almodóvar, Madres Paralelas. Como gran parte de las películas de Pedro Almodóvar, la historia de Madres Paralelas sucede en el presente y en la ciudad de predilección del director donde él vive, Madrid. No es su mejor película, pero como todas sus películas es […]
2020 vintage: Strong Oscar-nominated short films
The Oscar-nominated live-action short films are always surprising, inspiring and this year’s five nominees did not disappoint. From the instagram-filtered to the politically charged, the films offered a glimpse into some of the issues facing our contemporary world. The films take place in the late 2010s in northern Africa, in Europe, North America and Central […]