Open My Mind (documentary) ★½
“It was the drugs,” wrote Marcel Wyss‘ brother in his last note before taking his own life. So it’s understandableContinue Reading
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The Calf Doll (documentary) ★★★
With a title and premise equally fitting for an ancient fairy tale or horror, Ankur Hooda‘s devastating debut feature TheContinue Reading
The Great Experiment (documentary) ★★½
George Washington once in a letter referred to the establishment of democracy in the USA as “the last great experimentContinue Reading
Molly vs the Machines (documentary) ★
On the surface, Marc Silver‘s didactic documentary Molly vs The Machines, screening at CPH:DOX after premiering earlier this month atContinue Reading
Cambodian Beer Dreams (documentary) ★★★
“There are so many beer advertisements that you can’t even see the road signs,” says Cambodian activist Kim Eng inContinue Reading
Petrolheads (documentary) ★★½
For those less into cars than the two tech-savvy heroes of Emil Langballe‘s unlikely underdog story: the Honda Civic isContinue Reading
The Arctic Circle of Lust (documentary) ★½
Ideology and intimacy, social norms and sexual self-realization are set up as a dramatic dichotomy in Markku Heikkinen‘s thematically waveringContinue Reading
The Bride! ★★★
The Bride! is a reclamation. Opening with text hyping up the creation of the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley asContinue Reading
Light Pillar ★★½
Immobility, introversion, and isolation make for a timely, if occasionally exhausting, focus for Xu Zao‘s dreamlike debut feature Light Pillar.Continue Reading
My Wife Cries ★
To anyone who made it through the roughly one and a half hours of Angela Schanelec‘s contrived conversation piece, itContinue Reading
