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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 Owenlocarno film festival
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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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Trot (Trote)
This is a cold, uninvolving film that indulges in banal images and obvious metaphors. Conflict and imprisonment appear…
By Joseph Owen
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“We hurt ourselves with our egos”: Ethan Hawke reflects on his success at Locarno 2018 press conference
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 Owen
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Glaubenberg
Incest is perverted. That makes it basically exciting, transgressive, absurd and ripe for cinematic treatment. In this case,…
By Joseph Owen
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With the Wind (Le vent tourne)
Ideas of radical ecology, self-sufficiency and toiling the land offer many narrative possibilities: a well-meaning ode to collective…
By Joseph Owen
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“I respond to stories about people under pressure”: An interview with The Equalizer 2 director Antoine Fuqua
The Equalizer 2 is the latest feature film from American director Antoine Fuqua. It is being shown at…
By Joseph Owen
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What Doesn’t Kill Us (Was uns nicht umbringt): An interview with Sandra Nettelbeck and August Zirner
What Doesn’t Kill Us is the latest feature film from German director Sandra Nettelbeck. It is being shown…
By Joseph Owen
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What Doesn’t Kill Us (Was uns nicht umbringt)
Psychotherapy colours this mosaic of broken lives and frustrated love. In What Doesn't Kill Us Sandra Nettelbeck takes an…
By Joseph Owen
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Diane
Mary Kay Place is tough and affecting as Diane, an active, ageing woman suffocating from a misplaced sense…
By Joseph Owen