by jkylegregory | Apr 7, 2025 | Articles, Books, Nancy
A Girl Returned (L’Arminuta) by Donatella di Pietrantonio This book is a riveting story of a 13 year old girl who, after having been raised in an affluent home in the city by a couple she knew as her parents, was suddenly returned with no explanation to her poverty...
by jkylegregory | Mar 5, 2025 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Vermiglio by Maura Delpero Maybe the most exquisite film I saw at the Gothenburg Film Festival. It has stayed with me, in my heart and mind, just for its stunning emotional force. I find myself longing to see it again, also because there is so much detail from faces...
by jkylegregory | Feb 19, 2025 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Highlights From the Gothenburg Film Festival 2025 Films from more than 80 countries were shown at this year’s film festival in my hometown Gothenburg. This year’s theme was defiance, the power of civil resistance. Filmmakers have taken risks sharing their story...
by jkylegregory | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles, Film, Rinus
My Best Films of 2024 I still owe you my list of the best films of the past year. It contains the films that I truly care about and continue to carry with me. The ones that I believe will stay relevant, because they open up important reflections and discussions in...
by jkylegregory | Dec 6, 2024 | Articles, Film, Rinus
The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky In May 2019 I made an attempt on the Nexus website to introduce the films of the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986). I presented a list of seven masterpieces he made between 1962 and 1986 and focused then on his film The...
by jkylegregory | Oct 28, 2024 | Articles, Books, Thea
What You Can See From Here by Mariana Leky Luise is at the center of the story. In the first part of the book, she is in the fourth grade, later a grown woman. Her school friend Martin, her grandmother Selma, and her grandmother’s platonic friend, the optician,...
