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An interview with Todd Haynes at Locarno Film Festival
Revered director Todd Haynes has been a fixture of Locarno since 1991, when his film Poison first screened.…
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La Telenovela Errante (The Wandering Soap Opera)
This layered, imaginative, surrealist work has an opening scene so well judged, intelligently paced and ultimately funny that…
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Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
Travis Wilkerson has to do a lot with a little in this visually inventive, melancholy personal document of…
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Mrs Fang
Wang Bing keeps things short with this affecting, unsettling portrait of a woman in the last stages of…
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Good Luck
Filmmaker Ben Russell has produced something extraordinary with this slow, meditative and engrossing nonfiction study of two mining…
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What Happened to Monday? (Seven Sisters): An interview with director Tommy Wirkola
What Happened to Monday? (Seven Sisters) is the latest feature from Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola. It is being…
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9 Doigts (9 Fingers)
This is a frighteningly juvenile, pretentious piece of work from 61-year-old writer and director C J Ossang. What…
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Goliath
Dominik Locher’s Goliath acts as a fictional and far more cautionary counterpart to Denis Côté’s bodybuilding documentary A…
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Charleston
Romanian cinema has recently had its Renaissance period, with new wave directors such as Cristi Puiu and Cristian…
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Chien (Dog)
A bizarre, confounding film, Chien is the highlight of Locarno so far. This is a modern-day Metamorphosis –…
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