Under a Bad Star ★★½
Casting their own daughter Anouk Berlier in the role of Malone, the little girl whose perspective on her parents’ abusiveContinue Reading
Author: Lida Bach
Lucy Lost ★★
That well-meaning message of countless children’s movies, “Just be yourself”, becomes increasingly ambivalent in Olivier Clert‘s animated feature film debut.Continue Reading
Species ★★
Since Coralie Fargeat‘s bloodthirsty body horror The Substance, Cannes has developed a taste for women-made genre fare deploying and oftenContinue Reading
Hope ★★½
One can’t help but wonder how exactly Na Hong-jin’s fourth feature made it into Cannes competition, the cinematic standard ofContinue Reading
Jim Queen ★★½
“We are all about the G,” explains the fairy godmotherly drag queen Glamydia (Harald Marlot) to clueless closeted twink LucienContinue Reading
Everytime ★★★
A sunrise casts a strangely beautiful light on a row of drab apartment towers from one of which something suddenlyContinue Reading
John Lennon: The Last Interview (documentary) ★★
One day we will all be replaced by computers, says Yoko Ono in an ironic moment of Steven Soderbergh‘s inevitablyContinue Reading
We Are Aliens ★★★
Childhood constructs of the world around and the seismic reverberations their collapse send into adulthood drive Kohei Kadowaki‘s engrossing debutContinue Reading
Tangles ★★★
The nostalgic flair ingrained in the black-and-white images of Leah Nelson‘s animated debut feature gradually turns bitter as the diseaseContinue Reading
All of a Sudden ★½
There’s a certain irony in a film of over three hours in length and as deliberately slow-paced as Ryusuke Hamaguchi’sContinue Reading
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