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The Dutchman ★★½
The Dutchman is ambitious. The play Dutchman by Amiri Bakara serves as the basis for director Andre Gaines and screenwriterContinue Reading
Sirāt ★★★½
The premise behind Sirāt is somewhat simple: a father, Luis (Sergi López), is looking for his missing daughter. He isContinue Reading
Song Sung Blue ★★½
With films like Hamnet and Sentimental Value, this season’s set of releases offer a look at the power of artisticContinue Reading
Jay Kelly ★★
Jay Kelly (George Clooney) is an institution. If you took a sip every time you heard his name, you’d beContinue Reading
Autisto ★
“It’s taken from facts which are close to me; (…) inspired by my own experience,” says Jérôme Cohen-Olivar about hisContinue Reading
Life After Siham (documentary) ★★½
He would want for life to be a movie, says Namir Abdel Masseeh in one heartbreaking scene of his intimateContinue Reading
Five Eyes (documentary) ★★
For more than half of his long life, writer and composer Paul Bowles lived in Morocco. His five decades inContinue Reading
I Want Her Dead (documentary) ★½
Two archenemies, a longstanding family feud, the scenic stage of a remote Calabrian village where the ruins of an antiqueContinue Reading
Those Who Watch Over (documentary) ★★½
Do the living watch over the dead in Karima Saïdi‘s observational obituary? Or is it in fact the dead whoContinue Reading
Porte Bagage ★★½
The titular baggage of Abdelkarim El-Fassi‘s first feature film, debuting in the Moroccan Panorama section of the Marrakech International FilmContinue Reading
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