Joseph Owen

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  Weightless

  ★★★★★

  Artists often wrestle with the conundrum: how to give form to grief? How to give...

  Joseph Owen 15th October 2024
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  Weightless

  ★★★★★

  Artists often wrestle with the conundrum: how to give form to grief? How to give...

  Joseph Owen 20th August 2024
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  Bang Bang

  ★★★★★

  A boxer seeks redemption: an oldie and a goodie. Tim Blake Nelson takes on the...

  Joseph Owen 20th August 2024
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  Timestalker

  ★★★★★

  The riddle of reincarnation is the problem of repetition. No matter the place,...

  Joseph Owen 17th August 2024
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  Cinema & Tv

  “The world can change if you put together two things that were not associated before”: Sara Fgaier on Weightless at Locarno Film Festival 2024
  Joseph Owen 14th August 2024
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  Moon, 66 Questions

  ★★★★★

  This promising domestic drama about a young woman reconnecting with her ailing parent has an...

  Joseph Owen 20th June 2022
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  Vortex

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  Gaspar Noé, generally a director of provocations, has made an elegant and candid feature in...

  Joseph Owen 9th May 2022
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  One of These Days

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  A dramatic retelling of S R Bindler’s 1997 documentary Hands On A Hardbody, this solid,...

  Joseph Owen 17th March 2022
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  La Mif

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  This excellent, if dramatically overburdened realist drama has the quality of texture: the lives of...

  Joseph Owen 21st February 2022
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  Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

  ★★★★★

  Three lovelorn episodes about “coincidence and imagination”, as described by...

  Joseph Owen 7th February 2022