Dog of God ★½
For those not very versed in Eastern European history, “Livonia” might sound like the name of a medieval country straightContinue Reading
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Sisu: Road to Revenge ★★½
In the inevitable follow-up to his 2022 survival saga Sisu, Jalmari Helander expands the folkloric brutality of the original intoContinue Reading
Hamnet ★★★½
Part of the artistic achievement of Chloé Zhao‘s absorbing account of genius and the personal grammar of grief is notContinue Reading
Magellan ★★★★
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan’s legacy lived in the shadows of that of more prominent and popular explorers such as ChristopherContinue Reading
The Sea ★★★
For a film among those which prominently provoked Israel’s culture minister Miki Zohar to threaten that he would cut offContinue Reading
The Theme of Absence in Hamnet
There has been much praise for Chloé Zhao’s new film, Hamnet, an adaptation of author Maggie O’Farrell’s novel. The plauditsContinue Reading
San Simón ★★★
Contributing to the growing body of Spanish cinema dealing with the unresolved legacies of the Civil War and Francoist repression,Continue Reading
The Sleeper. The Lost Caravaggio (documentary) ★★
Caravaggio has become a rockstar of painting, comments one of the art experts hunting after a formerly unknown work byContinue Reading
As We Breathe ★★★
A slow-burning film in more than one sense, Seyhmus Altun‘s somber debut feature, screening in the New Directors section atContinue Reading
The Son and The Sea ★★★
The inability to communicate one’s inner state and feelings is at the core of Stroma Cairns‘ emotionally eloquent debut feature,Continue Reading
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