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Gerda
Gerda is a diverting, if frustrating, account of thwarted personal choice in modern Russia, speckled with striking compositions,…
By Joseph OwenLocarno Film Festival
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Brotherhood
Shot over five years in a docufictional style that fuses reality and imagination, Brotherhood is an assured second…
By Joseph Owen
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The Sacred Spirit (Espiritu Sagrado)
This darkly comic work walks and, for the most part, masters a tonal tightrope that few filmmakers would…
By Joseph Owen
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Medea
The Greek myth of Medea ends in tragedy, and this bold, bullish adaptation from Alexander Zeldovich positions itself…
By Joseph Owen
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Vortex
Gaspar Noé, generally a director of provocations, has made an elegant and candid feature in a lesser-spotted minor…
By Joseph Owen
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Bong Joon-Ho and Song Kang-Ho discuss their Palme d’Or winner Parasite at Locarno Film Festival
Director Bong Joon-Ho and his longtime collaborator, the actor Song Kang-Ho, were both in attendance at Locarno Film…
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The Tree House (Nhà cây)
The poetry of The Tree House is in its high concept framework that complicates space and time, its…
By Joseph Owen
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Days of the Bagnold Summer
This isn’t bad! Erstwhile Inbetweener Simon Bird offers a basically competent telling of Joff Winterhart’s graphic novel, a…
By Joseph Owen
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco
It's easy to equate romance with escape, emancipation with mobility. To movement, we live in deference. Joe Talbot’s…
By Joseph Owen
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Echo (Bergmál): A work of remarkable melancholy and beauty
In English Bergmál literally translates as “rock language”: the sound vibrating off stone, the tantalising echolalia. Rock language…
By Joseph Owen