Actor and director Ethan Hawke is this year’s recipient of the 2018 Excellence Award from Locarno Film Festival. The filmmaker’s career broke through in Dead…
By Joseph OwenEthan Hawke offers a conventional tale of decline and fall through a relatively freeform approach: the story of…
By Joseph OwenItalian director Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli presents Likemeback at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. It features Denise Tantucci, Angela…
By Joseph OwenStoicism leads into repression, repression into guilt and guilt into despair. This basic thesis is pursued in Eva…
By Joseph OwenIncest is perverted. That makes it basically exciting, transgressive, absurd and ripe for cinematic treatment. In this case,…
By Joseph OwenFrench actress Melanie Thierry stars in With the Wind (Le Vent Tourne), showing at this year’s Locarno Film Festival.…
By Joseph OwenA national rejuvenation, an economic miracle, Singapore succeeds through something tangible yet perverse: it keeps making itself bigger. Neighbouring lands export sand and…
By Joseph OwenIdeas of radical ecology, self-sufficiency and toiling the land offer many narrative possibilities: a well-meaning ode to collective…
By Joseph OwenGenesis is the follow-up feature film from French-Canadian director Philippe Lesage. It is being shown in competition at…
By Joseph OwenRadu Muntean's Alice T. is discomfort distilled. A teenage pregnancy is brutally and unsentimentally depicted. This is a…
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