With its unshakable images of biopsies, cesarean delivery, endoscopic procedures, and little-seen crevices inside all of us, De Humani Corporis Fabrica both demystifies and celebrates life and death.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica: Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s Documentary of the Wondrous Landscape of the Human Body
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A Couple (2022): Frederick Wiseman’s Tale of Countess Sophia Behrs, Wife of Novelist Leo Tolstoy
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Countess Sophia Behrs married Leo Tolstoy when she was 18 and he was 34. They were husband and wife for 48 years, had 13 children, and she outlived him by 9 years.
Corsage: Marie Kreutzer’s Tale of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Starring Vicky (Phantom Thread) Krieps (Cannes 2022; NYFF 2022)
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Star and director have created a remarkable vision of a strong-willed political figure whose emergence from a veiled, corseted existence stands for a Europe on the cusp of major irrevocable transformation.
Bones and All: Luca (Call Me By Your Name) Guadagnino’s Cannibal Love Story, Starring Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell
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The movie’s cannibal love story has a young woman on a cross-country odyssey with an intense drifter as she struggles on the margins of society.
Alcarràs: Carla Simón’s Follow-Up to Summer 1993
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It is a ruminative, lived-in portrait of a rural family in present-day Catalonia whose way of life is rapidly changing.
