Hold Onto Me ★★
For her feature film debut, screening in Karlovy Vary‘s Horizons section after premiering at Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition inContinue Reading
Author: Lida Bach
Ben‘Imana ★★★★
In her language, the word for yesterday is the same as for tomorrow, reminisces Rwandan reconciliation initiative worker Vénéranda (aContinue Reading
La Gradiva ★★ ½
Before tackling Marine Atlan‘s didactic debut feature, it‘s helpful to know that its title refers to German writer Wilhelm Jensen‘sContinue Reading
Ghost in the Cell ★★
While it is easy to poke holes in Joko Anwar‘s latest feature (yet, it should be added, as the incessantlyContinue Reading
Landmarks (documentary) ★★★½
“Our Land”, so the more pronounced original title of Lucrecia Martel‘s feature-length documentary debut, takes a real-life look at theContinue Reading
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
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
