Berlinale
Funny Face
This is a film of surfaces, for better or worse. Strikingly stylised, as if it were a haunted…
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Berlinale
All the Dead Ones (Todos os Mortos)
Slavery had been abolished in Brazil for a decade by 1899, when Todos os Mortos opens. This should…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
High Ground
It’s not as though every film needs to be viewed through a lens of contemporary wokeness, but surely…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
Undine
An undine is an elemental, ethereal being – a kind of water nymph. Legend states that the undine…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
Time to Hunt (Sa-nyang-eui-si-gan)
This excellent revenge thriller carries itself with real imaginative verve and technical confidence. In the near future, four…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
Pinocchio
Winning an Oscar can give a performer clout, leverage, and goodwill. This is the only explanation for how,…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
Golda Maria
Born into a Jewish family in Poland in 1910 and raised in Berlin, Golda Maria is a Holocaust…
By Jonathan Marshall
Berlinale
The Salt of Tears (Le Sel des Larmes)
Where to start with this wretched film? Listing a set of moral objections could be useful, although the…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
One of These Days
A dramatic retelling of S R Bindler’s 1997 documentary Hands On A Hardbody, this solid, absorbing film fictionalises…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu)
Goddess of the Fireflies is a dream-like haze, a heady combination of 90s nostalgia and reminiscing over first…
By Grace Walsh