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Social Hygiene (Hygiène sociale)
Antonin (Maxim Gaudette) is nothing but a common and disreputable thief and writer-director Denis Côté has him fixed…
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The World After Us (Le monde après nous)
Fans of künstlerroman rejoice! This portrait of the artist as a young man (apologies to James Joyce, our…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc)
Golden Bear for Best Film winner Something to offset the intake of staid and middlebrow filmmaking – always…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
The Fam (La Mif)
This excellent, if dramatically overburdened realist drama has the quality of texture: the lives of seven girls in…
By Joseph Owen
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Ted K
Packed with cinematic tricks (cuts, fades, tilted angles: the lot!) and led by Sharlto Copley’s committed American accent,…
By Joseph Owen
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Nebenan (Next Door)
Daniel Brühl supposedly sends himself up in this sly and insinuating two-hander, which is part attempted self-satire, part…
By Joseph Owen
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Moon, 66 Questions
This promising domestic drama about a young woman reconnecting with her ailing parent has an intelligent scene in…
By Joseph Owen
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Language Lessons
This sincerely felt, fundamentally misguided film amounts to a lockdown exercise for bored actors. Natalie Morales directs, co-writes…
By Joseph Owen
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Max Winslow and the House of Secrets
This mostly witless young adult adventure tries to reimagine Wily Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but without the…
By Joseph Owen
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Bliss
Bliss is a po-faced and dramatically inert science fiction meander that remains firmly committed to the vague exploration…
By Joseph Owen