romance Elisa & Marcela 13 Jan 2021Jan 15, 2021 "Reading your words is the closest thing to touching you" ★★★ In her biographical romantic drama Elisa & Marcela (2019), Catalan director Isabel Coixet uses an artistically promising black and…
romance Your Name Engraved Herein 28 Dec 2020Jan 21, 2021 "Maybe more people would understand me in hell" ★★★★★ Kuang-Hui Liu's 2020 Taiwanese romantic drama Your Name Engraved Herein was released on Netflix only a few days before Christmas, but…
romance Rafiki 11 Dec 2020Dec 21, 2020 "I wish this was real" ★★★★ Wanuri Kahiu's 2018 romance Rafiki (Swahili for 'friend') was banned in its native Kenya. As the director stated in an interview with TIFF, this…
romance Happy Together 20 Nov 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Turns out lonely people are all the same" ★★★★★ Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong romance Happy Together (1997) stores most of its meaning in its title. The English translation was inspired…
romance Vita & Virginia 4 Nov 2020Dec 21, 2020 "If you leave me stranded, I will hurt you" ★★★ Chanya Button's biographical romantic drama Vita & Virginia (2018) portrays the love affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sachville-West, which…
romance Below Her Mouth 14 Oct 2020Dec 21, 2020 "I'm going to starve to death in your bed" ★★★★ April Mullen's Canadian erotic romance Below Her Mouth (2016) is known for its all-female ensemble, with the film being written,…
romance Palm Trees in the Snow 18 Sep 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Life is a tornado. Peace, fury...and then peace again." ★★★★★ Fernando González Molina's Spanish romantic drama Palm Trees in the Snow (Spanish: Palmeras en la nieve, 2015) is based on…
romance Two of Us 28 Aug 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Have you got a problem with elderly dykes?" ★★★★★ After Céline Sciamma’s masterpiece Portrait of A Lady on Fire (2019), another French female-centric film attempts to approach lesbian love in a…
romance Jodhaa Akbar 4 Aug 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Water and ambition have one thing in common. They are ever-swelling." ★★★★ Ashutosh Gowariker's epic historical romance Jodhaa Akbar (2008) is not only a production of inconceivable proportions, but it…
romance Atonement 10 Jul 2020Dec 21, 2020 "How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong?" ★★★★★ After working together on Pride & Prejudice (2005), Keira Knightley and director Joe…
romance Indiscreet 26 Jun 2020Dec 21, 2020 "There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie" ★★★★ Stanley Donen's Indiscreet (1958) not only reunited Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman after their work in Hitchcock's Notorious (1946),…
romance Lady J 21 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "How is your heart?" ★★★★ Period films have a very specific aura about them - a degree of refinement that rarely transcends genres. Lady J (French: Mademoiselle de Joncquières) was,…
romance Swept Away 1 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "All rich people are the same. They play funny little games." ★ Times of ongoing quarantine call for a film that serves as an entertaining adventure, light comedy/romance, and a…
romance Adore 30 Apr 2020Dec 21, 2020 "I can't remember ever being this happy. It's scary." ★★★★ We often look for films that carry the sugary scent of a forbidden fruit. We seek out salacious content that…
romance 3-Iron 27 Apr 2020Dec 21, 2020 "It's hard to tell if the world we live in is reality, or a dream" ★★★★★ There are films one can rewatch for the sake of pleasure. There are films…
