Dreams, 2025. Written and Directed by Michel Franco. Starring Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández, Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell, Eligio Meléndez, Mercedes Hernández, Tatiana Ronderos, Bobby August Jr., Nessa Dougherty, and Jayden Leavitt. SYNOPSIS: A powerful socialite and a promising ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair. When he secretly crosses the US-Mexico border, she takes desperate measures […]
Trailer for erotic drama Dreams starring Jessica Chastain and Isaac Hernández
Greenwich Entertainment has released a trailer for Dreams, the erotic drama from writer-director Michel Franco. The film tells the story of a dangerous affair that blossoms between Jennifer (Jessica Chastain), a wealthy American socialite and Fernando (Isaac Hernández), a promising Mexican ballet dancer, as they resort to desperate measures to fight for a future together. […]
Movie Review – Dreams (2025)
Dreams, 2025. Written and directed by Michel Franco. Starring Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández, Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell, Eligio Meléndez, and Mercedes Hernández. SYNOPSIS: Romance blossoms between a wealthy socialite and a Mexican ballet dancer, intertwining their contrasting lives and cultures. Following 2023’s excellent Memory, Mexican writer-director Michel Franco’s second collaboration with Jessica Chastain is a […]
Movie Review – Memory (2023)
Memory, 2023. Written and Directed by Michel Franco. Starring Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Merritt Wever, Josh Charles, Elsie Fisher, Jessica Harper, Brooke Timber, Jackson Dorfmann, Alexis Rae Forlenza, Elizabeth Loyacano, Josh Philip Weinstein, and Mia Mei Williamson. SYNOPSIS: Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life. This is blown open when […]
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard star in the trailer for Memory
Ketchup Entertainment has released the trailer for Michel Franco’s Memory, a heartbreaking tale of two lonely, battered souls searching for love, which stars Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard. As well as the “tender performances” given by Chastain and Sarsgaard (read our review here), Memory also features Brooke Timber (Russian Doll), Merritt Wever […]
2023 BFI London Film Festival Review – Memory
Memory, 2023. Directed by Michel Franco. Starring Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Brooke Timber, Merritt Wever, Josh Charles, Jackson Dorfmann, Elsie Fisher, and Jessica Harper. SYNOPSIS: Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will […]
Movie Review – Sundown (2022)
Sundown, 2022. Written and Directed by Michel Franco Starring Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Iazua Larios, Henry Goodman, Albertine Kotting, and Samuel Bottomley SYNOPSIS: Neil and Alice Bennett are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family’s tight-knit order, simmering […]
Tensions run high between Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg in the trailer for Sundown
We called it “gripping” and “provocative” in our ★★★★ review from the Toronto International Film Festival and now Bleecker Street have released an atmospheric trailer for their family drama Sundown, which is set to hit US cinemas this January. Directed by Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco (Chronic, New Order), Sundown stars Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg as […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Sundown
Sundown, 2021. Written and directed by Michel Franco. Starring Tim Roth, Iazua Larios, and Charlotte Gainsbourg. SYNOPSIS: A wealthy man attempts to abandon his life while vacationing in Acapulco. It won’t surprise many to learn that the latest film from Mexican auteur Michel Franco (After Lucia, New Order) is an hypnotic and unpredictable experience. Re-teaming […]
Movie Review – New Order (2020)
New Order, 2020. Directed by Michel Franco. Starring Naian Gonzalez Norvind, Diego Boneta, and Monica Del Carmen. SYNOPSIS: A wedding between two wealthy, high society individuals is interrupted by rioting and criminal activity. Violence on screen is not a novel concept. Indeed, the violence we see in films often reflects that which exists in the […]
