LFF
Paper Tiger
Paper Tiger opens with a standard crime thriller set-up: two brothers, one reckless and one cautious, edging toward…
By Christina YangSpecial
Latest
LFF
Wicker
Any heterosexual single woman has a horror story or two about the modern dating market. But the pre-industrial…
By Selina Sondermann
LFF
The Black Ball
Like its fellow Spanish entries in the Cannes competition Bitter Christmas and The Beloved – as well as…
By Selina Sondermann
LFF
Gentle Monster
When films deal with abusive or predatory men, the focus usually settles on revelation, guilt or punishment. The…
By Christina Yang
LFF
Queer Edward II
In 1991, filmmaker Derek Jarman shot a radical film adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s play Edward II, connecting its…
By Selina Sondermann
LFF
Elsinore
Meta might not be the right expression, but there is a nice synchronicity to the fact that the…
By Selina Sondermann
LFF
Moscas (Flies)
If the festival gave out an award for Best Opening Scene, Moscas would be the clear winner. Without…
By Selina Sondermann
LFF
Forest High
“Unable to be silent, I will be long and still”. Arriving during a hushed poetry recitation, it’s as…
By Thomas Messner
LFF
Isabel
There's something alluring about enjoying wine and pretending to be a sybarite, even though we are often unable…
By Jan Tracz
LFF
A Man of His Time
Emmanuelle Marre's A Man of His Time opens in September 1940 at a drunken gathering of French collaborators,…
By Christina Yang