Learning to Breathe Under Water ★★
Middle-class boys who haven’t learned yet that their needs always come first are never too young for their very ownContinue Reading
Category: Festival Coverage
AnyMart ★★★½
“Maybe it starts in places like that one,” muses a young girl on a date with convenience store clerk SakaiContinue Reading
Paris Paris ★½
With its playful repetition and romantic associations, the title of Isabelle Tollenaere‘s aimless feature film debut creates a curious contrastContinue Reading
The Holy Boy ★★ ½
If a place is called “The Valley of Smiles”—as the setting of Paolo Strippoli‘s quasi-religious horror tale is named byContinue Reading
Animol ★★★
The title of Ashley Walters‘ harrowing first feature, premiering earlier this year at Berlinale‘s Perspective section and recently screening atContinue Reading
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
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
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