Tag Archives: family drama

home, art and healing (film: Sentimental Value / Affeksjonverdi – Joachim Trie, 2025)

Posted on October 11, 2025 by admin

I was introduced to Joachim Trier‘s films at a Scandinavian film festival a few years ago. Since then I have been following him and I try not to miss any of his films. Four years have passed between his previous … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Affeksjonverdi, Elle Fanning, family drama, film about the movies industry, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Joachim Trier, Norway cinema, original script, Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård | Leave a comment

the world as seen by Maria (film: Dinți de lapte – Mihai Mincan, 2025)

Posted on September 30, 2025 by admin

‘Dinți de lapte‘ (‘Milk Teeth‘) is, in its way, a unique film. It is the second auteur film (written and directed) by Mihai Mincan and made as a co-production with international financing and participation. This time, unlike his debut film, … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged coming to age movies, Dinți de lapte, Emma Ioana Mogos, family drama, films with children, George Chiper, Mihai Mincan, Noul Val, Romanian cinema | Leave a comment

another poignant family docu-drama by Radu Ciorniciuc (documentary: Tata – Radu Ciorniciuc & Lina Vdovii, 2024)

Posted on July 18, 2025 by admin

‘Tata‘ (2024) is the second film by director Radu Ciorniciuc after ‘Acasă, My Home’ in which he builds an entire cinematic universe starting from a special life story. Material that for many other filmmakers would result in a film exposed … Continue reading →

Posted in documentary | Tagged docu-drama, documentary, family drama, Lina Vdovii, Radu Ciorniciuc, Romanian cinema | Leave a comment

a relationship in crisis (film: Elskling / Loveable – Lilja Ingolfsdottir, 2024)

Posted on July 14, 2025 by admin

Norwegian cinema is less known in the world than the ones coming from other Scandinavian countries, but lately it has offered some interesting productions, especially films about ordinary people and their relationships. ‘Elskling‘, the 2024 debut film by director Lilja … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged author cinema, Elskling, family drama, Helga Guren, Lilja Ingolfsdottir, Loveable, Norwegian cinema, Oddgeir Thune, original script, relationship drama | Leave a comment

a japanese autumn sonata (film: Teki – Daihachi Yoshida, 2024)

Posted on February 1, 2025 by admin

‘Teki‘, the 2024 film by Japanese director Daihachi Yoshida, is a film about the old age. I don’t know to what extent contemporary Japanese cinema addresses this topic, but it seems natural to me that it would in a country … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Daihachi Yoshida, family drama, films about old age, horror movies, Japanese cinema, Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Teki, Yasutaka Tsutsui | Leave a comment

inovative cinema, weak stories (film: Here – Robert Zemeckis, 2024)

Posted on December 9, 2024 by admin

‘Here‘ (2024) is a technological marvel. There are directors from whom I expect something like this, one of them would be Steven Spielberg, and then Robert Zemeckis, the director of this film, whose movies Spielberg produced on many occasions. The … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Alan Silvestri, family drama, Hollywood movies, inspired by comics, melodrama, Richard McGuire, Robert Zemeckis, Robin Wright, special effects, Tom Hanks | Leave a comment

wonderful Deneuve shines in an undecided movie (film: Elle s’en va – Emmanuelle Bercot, 2013)

Posted on October 31, 2024 by admin

Three of the four films made in the last 11 years by Emmanuelle Bercot have Catherine Deneuve as the star. Bercot is one of those film directors who, being also an actress, knows very well how to highlight the actors … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Bercot, family drama, French cinema, original script, road movies | Leave a comment

the breaking of an ordinary family (film: Ordinary People – Robert Redford, 1980)

Posted on October 23, 2024 by admin

Americans don’t really use the expression ‘cinema de papa’, invented by critics and French filmmakers followers of the New Wave to define everything that characterizes the film-making ways of previous generations, from which they wanted to move away. It would … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth McGovern, family drama, first film for a director, Hollywood movies, inspired by a novel, Judd Hirsch, Mary Tyler Moore, Robert Redford, Timothy Hutton | Leave a comment

the virtuosity of the raising stars (film: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape – Lasse Hallström, 1993)

Posted on July 20, 2024 by admin

‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape‘ (1993) is one of the best-known feature films of the Swedish director Lasse Hallström, whose launching pad to international fame was built of the music videos of ABBA’s hit songs. Today it has also become a … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged American saga, coming to age movies, family drama, Hollywood movies, John C. Reilly, Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Lasse Hallström, Leonardo DiCaprio, movie about love, Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Leave a comment