Everyone lies in the World War I series “Davos 1917.” Mostly because they have to.
“You have war, you have the elite coming together in this one place. You have to watch your step and tread carefully. Everything could be a trap,” says Jan-Eric Mack, who directed alongside Christian Theede and Anca Miruna Lazarescu.
The show focuses on a young nurse Johanna who finds herself surrounded by spies in the Swiss resort town. Desperate to reunite with her illegitimate daughter, she discovers she has a talent for espionage, too.
“I think she always had these skills. She just couldn’t show them in the house she grew up in,” says lead actor Dominique Devenport, also known for “Sisi.”
“She has always been different. And then, suddenly, she gets an opportunity to develop talents she didn’t even know she had. That’s why it’s happening so quickly, in a way.
“You have war, you have the elite coming together in this one place. You have to watch your step and tread carefully. Everything could be a trap,” says Jan-Eric Mack, who directed alongside Christian Theede and Anca Miruna Lazarescu.
The show focuses on a young nurse Johanna who finds herself surrounded by spies in the Swiss resort town. Desperate to reunite with her illegitimate daughter, she discovers she has a talent for espionage, too.
“I think she always had these skills. She just couldn’t show them in the house she grew up in,” says lead actor Dominique Devenport, also known for “Sisi.”
“She has always been different. And then, suddenly, she gets an opportunity to develop talents she didn’t even know she had. That’s why it’s happening so quickly, in a way.
- 10/18/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi Podcast: Encuentros returns for a fourth season.The first episode features:Ilse Salas (Mexico), a film, TV, and theater actress who is internationally recognized for her leading role in Alejandra Márquez Abella's The Good Girls, a selection of the Toronto International Film Festival and a prizewinner in Malaga. Winner of the Ariel for Best Actress, and a two-time Platino Award nominee, Salas has worked with important Latin American directors such as Abner Benaim, Lucía Puenzo, and Alonso Ruizpalacios.Guillermo Calderón (Chile), a playwright with a deep political commitment and the screenwriter of some of his country's most important films from the last decade, such as Pablo Larraín's The Club (2015), Neruda (2016), and Ema (2019). These films' festival screenings include the Venice Film Festival, the Berlinale, and the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes. In this first episode, the hosts talk about theatricality as an expressive possibility that’s poorly explored in Latin American cinema.
- 8/16/2023
- MUBI
When you type “zany synonyms” in Google, you find words like avant-garde, eccentric, quirky, and so on. But Netflix’s latest rom-com, The Wonder Weeks, directed by Appie Boudellahis and Aram van de Rest, is none of that, despite Netflix projecting it as a “Zany” comedy on the website. Of course, not everything Netflix says has to be true, and ninety percent of their original movies are forgettable, but this movie is god-awful. I wish I had a less harsh word to describe it, but this is just how it is.
I don’t mind the romantic comedy or family comedy genres. If things are done well, films of these genres can turn out to be as satisfactory as eating a bag full of potato chips when you have no other snacks available. But the problem with Netflix is that they have this exasperating tendency to apply an equivalent of TikTok filter to everything,...
I don’t mind the romantic comedy or family comedy genres. If things are done well, films of these genres can turn out to be as satisfactory as eating a bag full of potato chips when you have no other snacks available. But the problem with Netflix is that they have this exasperating tendency to apply an equivalent of TikTok filter to everything,...
- 6/10/2023
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
‘The Wonder Weeks’ (2023) Ending, Explained: Do The Young Parents Come To Terms With Their Families?
Set in the Netherlands, The Wonder Weeks, or Oei, ik groei! showcases three families of young parents and the highs and lows of raising their infants. Directed by Appie Boudellah and Aram van de Rest, the movie stars Sallie Harmsen, Soy Kroon, Lous Talpe, Katja Schuurman, Yolantha Cabau, and others as young fathers and mothers who try to understand the best ways to raise their kids. With multiple laugh-out-loud moments and some deep messages, The Wonder Weeks tells the story of what the necessities are to help raise kids. Here’s everything that happens in this light-hearted comedy/drama movie.
Spoilers Ahead
Who Are The Parents?
Three moms give birth to three children in three separate families, and thanks to the proximity of the local daycare center, they become friends quickly. On the one hand, there’s Anne and Barry and their little daughter Mia, while the Moroccan Sabri and...
Spoilers Ahead
Who Are The Parents?
Three moms give birth to three children in three separate families, and thanks to the proximity of the local daycare center, they become friends quickly. On the one hand, there’s Anne and Barry and their little daughter Mia, while the Moroccan Sabri and...
- 6/9/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
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