Review: A Hand-Drawn French Animation About a Lamplighter Lights Up the Dark
“Le Réverbère,” from the Angoulême studio Atelier Nord, is a wordless, 84-minute marvel about a boy, a gas lamp, and a city learning to live with electricity.
Review: In “Quarry,” a Welsh Town Digs Into Its Own Past and Finds a Body
Rhian Ellis’s second feature, which had its premiere at the Rome Film Festival, is a slow, exacting drama about a slate town and the thing it agreed not to talk about.
Rome Film Festival Opens With a Full Slate, a New Director, and a Case of Nerves About Streaming
The 21st edition features 142 films from 48 countries and a market that organizers hope will keep European producers from selling their best work to American platforms before it reaches a cinema.
