Jeffrey Edalatpour

Jeffrey Edalatpour

Jeffrey Edalatpour's first published article was a 1999 film review of Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother. Since then, his writing about arts, food and culture has appeared in a variety of print and online publications, including: KQED Arts, Metro Silicon Valley, Interview Magazine, Berkeleyside.com, The Rumpus and SF Weekly. His favorite Iris Murdoch novels (in no particular order) are The Bell, An Unofficial Rose andThe Black PrinceIn other words, his home library is an anglophile’s dream.

By Jeffrey Edalatpour
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‘Kinds of Kindness’ Is a Bleak Triptych of Tortured Souls

A young girl looks over her shoulder at a woman sitting, leaning forward on a bed covered with black sticks

In Jona Frank’s EUQINOM Exhibit, There’s No Place Like Home

White woman with short brown hair sits on bench with books on Richard III.

In ‘The Lost King,’ Sally Hawkins Gets a Ghostly Guide in Search for Royal Bones

White woman with short hair leans chin on hand with white girl in similar pose

In ‘One Fine Morning,’ Léa Seydoux Reclaims Her Identity Amid Struggles of Love and Family

A group of white women of all ages in modest clothing sit in a hay loft, looking left

‘Women Talking’ Is a Powerful Conversation About Revolution

A middle-aged white woman in a navy uniform looks out from ticket booth contemplatively

In Sam Mendes’ ‘Empire of Light’, a Faded Cinema Still Holds Romance

‘Spoiler Alert’ Gives Its Ending Away and Gains Something Sweeter in the Process

White man in 50s police uniform in dark room

Harry Styles Gives an Arresting Performance in Steamy Yet Gloomy ‘My Policeman’

Two men sit on chairs, a woman stands between them, a giant rock is suspended above their heads

In ‘Official Competition,’ Manipulation is Just Part of the Artistic Process

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