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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    Petite Maman
    ★★★★★

    This gracefully rendered, fabular tale provides an exquis...

    Joseph Owen 16th October 2021
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    Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
    ★★★★★

    Three lovelorn episodes about “coi...

    Joseph Owen 12th October 2021
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    La Mif
    ★★★★★

    This excellent, if dramatically overburdened realist drama has th...

    Joseph Owen 11th October 2021
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    Language Lessons
    ★★★★★

    This sincerely felt, fundamentally misguided film am...

    Joseph Owen 11th October 2021
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    Next Door
    ★★★★★

    Daniel Brühl supposedly sends himself up in this sly and insinuating two-hander, which ...

    Joseph Owen 10th October 2021
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    Brotherhood
    ★★★★★

    Shot over five years in a docufictional style that fuses ...

    Joseph Owen 16th August 2021
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    Gerda
    ★★★★★

    Gerda is a diverting, if frustrating, account of thwarted persona...

    Joseph Owen 16th August 2021
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    The Sacred Spirit (Espiritu Sagrado)
    ★★★★★

    This darkly comic work wa...

    Joseph Owen 13th August 2021
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    Medea
    ★★★★★

    The Greek myth of Medea ends in tragedy, and this bold, bullish a...

    Joseph Owen 12th August 2021
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    Vortex
    ★★★★★

    Gaspar Noé, generally a director of provocations, has made an e...

    Joseph Owen 12th August 2021