His life was painted in broad, muscular strokes that challenged the imagination. George Bonga searched through muck and mosquitoes for the source of the Mississippi River when he was 18. He portaged ...

One of Louis Malle’s lesser known films, The Fire Within (1963) is also one of his best, a low-key portrait of a suicidal writer making one last survey of his life while working up the will to make ...

For Liam Neeson, “Ordinary Love” is anything but. A low-key portrait of a retired Irish couple — Neeson’s Tom and Lesley Manville’s Joan — facing a sudden crisis with a breast cancer diagnosis, ...

Major life decisions — like 'let's make a baby' and 'let's make a porno' — have low-key consequences in this portrait of a typical Spanish couple. After a series of deliberately difficult art films, ...