White Flowers and Fruits ★★★
Ghosts, grief, and growing up form a melancholic mêlée in Sakamoto Yukari‘s directorial debut about characters quite literally haunted byContinue Reading
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Maspalomas ★★½
From an outsider’s, and possibly especially an American, point of view, Spain may look like an LGBTQ+ haven with itsContinue Reading
Franz ★★
Having been to Prague, where the troubled title character of Agnieszka Holland‘s erratic biopic spent most of his life, significantlyContinue Reading
Deathstalker ★★½
If someone asked if Steven Kostanski’s retro-romancing reboot of Roger Corman’s eponymous sword-and-sorcery film series is strictly speaking a goodContinue Reading
Friedas Fall ★★½
“The wolf often comes in sheep’s clothing,” comments a disdainful prison warden in Maria Brendle’s ambitious combination of period pieceContinue Reading
‘Dracula’ Radu Jude Interview
As one of contemporary cinema’s most incisive auteurs, Radu Jude returns to the competition of the Locarno Film Festival withContinue Reading
Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream ★★
Baghdad’s gritty reality and the ancient myths lingering among its ruins intertwine with the childlike imagination of Iraq’s future youngContinue Reading
Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation (documentary) ★★
America has a thing with myth making, one of the prominent interviewees remarks more than half-way through Ebs Burnough‘s dedicatedContinue Reading
Judas’ Gospel ★½
From the moment blasting heavy metal music throws the blood-red opening credits on the black screen, Giulio Base‘s fictional biopicContinue Reading
Don’t Let Me Die ★★½
Quiet tragedy, absurdist humor, and unsettling undertones of genre cinema blend in Andrei Epure‘s gloomy feature film debut. Expanding onContinue Reading
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