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The scene is ineffably, absurdly touching, the sweetest expression of family love seen in recent films.
NEWYORKER: Noble Creatures
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This recession-age fable, which revolves around love, work, family pressures, and hidebound traditions, is set in contemporary Lisbon but breathes the air of a dreamy, timeless romanticism one that befits the long view of life taken by its hundred-year-old director, Manoel de Oliveira.
NEWYORKER: Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl
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This portrait of the novelist, literary adventurer, legendary talker, and precocious burnout Harold (Doc) Humes, directed by his daughter Immy, is a labor of love, years in the making, rendered all the more poignant by the troubled family relations it lays bare.
NEWYORKER: Doc