Sooner or later, everyone in THE MONK AND THE GUN asks the obvious question. What would a monk want with a gun? The monk in this case is a Bhutanese Buddhist Lama, and he is about to break his meditation retreat two years early in order to perform a ritual that will need one. Actually,… Read More »
THE GIRL KING — Mika Kaurismaki Interview
A film about a Swedish queen, directed by a Finnish filmmaker, and performed in English. That’s Mika Kaurismaki’s THE GIRL KING, the story of Queen Christina, an 18th-century monarch, raised as a boy, who fell in love with her lady-in-waiting, and abdicated her throne in order to convert to Catholicism and live a more satisfying… Read More »