Paradeisa ★★½
If there is a slight spoiler hidden in the synopsis of Marleen Valien‘s first feature, it’s for a good reason.Continue Reading
Category: Festival Coverage
Marco Bellocchio: La porta della Realtà (documentary) ★★
Conceived after nearly two decades of collaboration between the prominent photographer and the renowned filmmaker, and feeling about as long,Continue Reading
Memory of Princess Mumbi ★★½
Financial limitations, production challenges, as well as the tropes and pitfalls of the mise en abyme, become part of theContinue Reading
Sundown ★½
An isolated cabin in the wintry Canadian countryside becomes the site of a family kangaroo court, as elderly Donna (OlwenContinue Reading
Hanabi ★★
A self-absorbed, sensorial film about the long shadow of a catastrophe, Ana Vaz‘s second feature tries to grasp the traumaContinue Reading
Summer Meadow ★★★
“Quite a lot of people get lost,” remarks the young protagonist of Naël Khleifi and Lisa Debauche‘s intimate portrait ofContinue Reading
Bakma ★½
“Bakma” is a Tunisian term for voicelessness or the inability to speak, Abdelhamid Bouchnak explains in a brief introduction, justContinue Reading
Destroy All Girls ★★★★
Some films breathe so intensely the air of one specific film festival that they—in any sense of the word—feel madeContinue Reading
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
AnyMart ★★★½
“Maybe it starts in places like that one,” muses a young girl on a date with convenience store clerk SakaiContinue Reading
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