‘Rains Over Babel’ Review: This Tropical, Queer Riff on Dante’s Inferno Is a Dazzling, Daring Provocation
Rains Over Babel,' a queer riff on Dante's Inferno, announces director Gala del Sol as a talent of international cinema.
Wall Street Journal14d
‘Dante’s Divine Comedy’ Review: Enduring Visions of the Afterlife
Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos and Christian eschatology—and its toads are Dante’s lifelike settings and characters ... its three-part journey through hell ...
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‘Rains Over Babel’ Review: This Tropical, Queer Riff on Dante’s Inferno Is a Dazzling, Daring Provocation
A playful riff on Dante’s “Inferno,” the film is set in a fantastical ... beauty in resilience and joy in resistance. As one character puts it, “Sometimes the best thing is to jump into ...
Screen International9d
‘Rains Over Babel’: Rotterdam Review
Decadent interpretation of Dante’s Inferno plays out in a pop punk Colombian nightclub ...
The New Yorker4d
The Poet Shane McCrae Goes Back to Hell
McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless ...
Winter’s decline evokes nostalgia, not outrage
What would be apparent to readers from sunnier climes is that most of Hirst’s Winter Literature depicts the season as a time ...
The Daily Californian4d
Sundance Dispatch #4: The middleweights
On Dec. 19, 1974, experimental novelist and bastion of the New York arts scene Linda Rosenkrantz invited famed photographer ...
Greek Reporter20h
The Five Rivers of the Greek Underworld
Ruled by Hades, the god of the underworld, the infernal rivers of Greek mythology are often mentioned in ancient literature.