Joseph Owen

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Joseph Owen is writing a doctoral thesis on Carl Schmitt and literary modernism at University of Southampton. He moonlights as a critic at European film festivals. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @josephowen30

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
  • Movie review
    Moon, 66 Questions

    This promising domestic drama about a young woman reconnecting with her ailing parent has an...

  • Movie review
    Vortex

    Gaspar Noé, generally a director of provocations, has made an elegant and candid feature in...

  • Movie review
    One of These Days

    A dramatic retelling of S R Bindler’s 1997 documentary Hands On A Hardbody, this solid,...

  • Movie review
    La Mif

    This excellent, if dramatically overburdened realist drama has the quality of texture: the lives of...

  • Movie review
    Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

    Three lovelorn episodes about “coincidence and imagination”, as described by...

  • Movie review
    Petite Maman

    This gracefully rendered, fabular tale provides an exquisite distillation of Céline Sciamma’s...

  • Film festivals
    Petite Maman

    This gracefully rendered, fabular tale provides an exquisite distillation of...

  • Film festivals
    Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

    Three lovelorn episodes about “coincidence and...

  • Film festivals
    La Mif

    This excellent, if dramatically overburdened realist drama has the quality of...

  • Film festivals
    Language Lessons

    This sincerely felt, fundamentally misguided film amounts to a lockdown...