“Souley from Paris!” That loose, friendly greeting comes early and often in Boris Lojkine’s tense pressure-cooker “Souleymane’s Story” (2024), but…
Author: Kevin Parks
Kevin Parks
Kevin is a freelance writer and film critic who lives in New York. His favorite director is Robert Altman and he dearly misses Netflix's delivery DVD service.
Albert Serra’s “Afternoons of Solitude” is a committed, unflinching chronicle of poetic brutality. Or, is it brutal poetry? It’s the…
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