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Weightless
Artists often wrestle with the conundrum: how to give form to grief? How to give it contours, shape?…
By Joseph Owen
Joseph Owen
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Weightless
Artists often wrestle with the conundrum: how to give form to grief? How to give it contours, shape?…
By Joseph Owen
Film festivals
Bang Bang
A boxer seeks redemption: an oldie and a goodie. Tim Blake Nelson takes on the worn mantle of…
By Joseph Owen
Film festivals
Timestalker
The riddle of reincarnation is the problem of repetition. No matter the place, no matter the age, no…
By Joseph OwenCinema & 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
Sara Fgaier brings her debut feature Weightless (Sulla terra legerri) to Locarno, where it has premiered in competition.…
By Joseph Owen
Movie
Moon, 66 Questions
This promising domestic drama about a young woman reconnecting with her ailing parent has an intelligent scene in…
By Joseph Owen
Movie
Vortex
Gaspar Noé, generally a director of provocations, has made an elegant and candid feature in a lesser-spotted minor…
By Joseph Owen
Movie
One of These Days
A dramatic retelling of S R Bindler’s 1997 documentary Hands On A Hardbody, this solid, absorbing film fictionalises…
By Joseph Owen
Movie
La Mif
This excellent, if dramatically overburdened realist drama has the quality of texture: the lives of seven girls in…
By Joseph Owen
Movie
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Three lovelorn episodes about “coincidence and imagination”, as described by writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, comprise this wondrous, searching and…
By Joseph Owen