Joseph Owen

Joseph Owen is writing a doctoral thesis on Carl Schmitt and literary modernism at University of Southampton. He moonlights as a critic at European film festivals. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @josephowen30

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  My Little Sister: An interview with Nina Hoss, Marthe Keller and the directors

  My Little Sister ...

  Joseph Owen 3rd March 2020
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  Siberia

  ★★★★★

  Abel Ferrara does his own thing, it seems. Other Berlinale compe...

  Joseph Owen 29th February 2020
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  The Roads Not Taken

  ★★★★★

  For a project packed with talent – writer-dir...

  Joseph Owen 29th February 2020
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  Welcome to Chechnya

  ★★★★★

  It’s perhaps a little rote and cursory to desc...

  Joseph Owen 29th February 2020
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  Days (Rizi)

  ★★★★★

  Tsai Ming-liang makes films that probe the very nature of ...

  Joseph Owen 28th February 2020
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  Bad Tales (Favolacce)

  ★★★★★

  Bad Tales matches the grim determinism of it...

  Joseph Owen 28th February 2020
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  Interview with Bad Tales (Favolacce) directors Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo

  The D’Innocenzo ...

  Joseph Owen 26th February 2020
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  Shirley

  ★★★★★

  Upon its publication, Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lotter...

  Joseph Owen 25th February 2020
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  My Little Sister (Schwesterlein)

  ★★★★★

  A fellow critic described this ...

  Joseph Owen 24th February 2020
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  The Assistant

  ★★★★★

  Painstaking and formally exquisite, this single-minded d...

  Joseph Owen 24th February 2020