Joseph Owen

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    Movie
    Petite Maman

    This gracefully rendered, fabular tale provides an exquisite distillation of Céline Sciamma’s...

    Joseph Owen 15th November 2021
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    LFF
    Petite Maman

    This gracefully rendered, fabular tale provides an exquisite distillation of...

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

    Three lovelorn episodes about “coincidence and...

    Joseph Owen 12th October 2021
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    La Mif

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

    Joseph Owen 11th October 2021
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    LFF
    Language Lessons

    This sincerely felt, fundamentally misguided film amounts to a lockdown...

    Joseph Owen 11th October 2021
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    Movie
    Next Door

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

    Joseph Owen 10th October 2021
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    Film festivals
    Brotherhood

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

    Joseph Owen 16th August 2021
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    Gerda

    Gerda is a diverting, if frustrating, account of thwarted personal choice in modern...

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

    This darkly comic work walks and, for the most part,...

    Joseph Owen 13th August 2021
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    Medea

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

    Joseph Owen 12th August 2021