Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Rebellion (documentary) ★½
Yet another hybrid of fiction and documentary at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, María Aparicio‘s cinematic city tour throughContinue Reading
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La belle année (documentary) ★½
With the self-centered sophistication of a filmic family romance, Angelica Ruffier‘s debut documentary unearths supposedly forgotten feelings in the houseContinue Reading
Body of Glass ★★½
Grief as an individual experience has become a widely accepted reality, polar to Naëmi Ada‘s dramatic scenario that looks atContinue Reading
Will You Still Be My Friend ★★★
Economic and ecological priorities are at the core of Lu Po-Shun‘s classic but also a tad conventional coming-of-age tale ofContinue Reading
Lovers Sleep Alone ★★★
Physical presence is only a painful provisory in Massih Parsaei‘s tender first-time feature, circling with its lonely protagonist through aContinue Reading
Digger ★★★½
Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger is an audacious film. It is a true original, a film that has immediately dividedContinue Reading
The History of Concrete (documentary) ★½
Documentarian John Wilson attended a seminar on how to make a Hallmark movie for one reason: to learn how toContinue Reading
The World Before ★★★
Set over a languid summer on a remote Korean island, Yoon Dan-bi weaves a tender tale of the threshold fromContinue Reading
Heart of the Beast ★★
Is the title of David Ayer‘s sentimental survival epic a reference to animalistic qualities in humans, or to human qualitiesContinue Reading
Flesh Impact (short film) ★★★
On the cover, Marilyn Monroe might be the heroine of Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s semi-biographical short film. But the glistening presence atContinue Reading
