Silent Rebellion ★★½
Her mother is “a bad woman”, says 15-year-old Emma (a remarkable Lila Gueneau) at the beginning of Marie-Elsa Sgualdo‘s ambitiousContinue Reading
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Tomb of Dreams ★★½
In a world of constant and consecutive catastrophes, where one terrible event is surpassed by the next before its consequencesContinue Reading
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
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