Category: Reviews
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The Measure of a Man – Review
Imagine this: you’re the security guard at a supermarket, tasked to unblinkingly stare at a CCTV monitor. You watch for what feels like hours, waiting for something to happen, as every instant that threatens to tip the tedium into mild interest revealing itself to be no more than a red herring. In Stéphane Brizé’s The Measure… Read More >
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Arabian Nights trilogy – Review
Miguel Gomes’ ambitious six hour-plus satirical satire of history, modern-day politics and surrealism is certainly something to talk about. Except that’s all it does: talk. Kicking off the trilogy, which was filmed back-to-back on location, is Volume 1 – The Restless One. We’re introduced to director Miguel Gomes attempting to barter his way out of… Read More >
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Rocco and His Brothers – Review
Although some of its firework-like histrionics can seem a tad dated today, Rocco and His Brothers is a luminous reminder of the vitality of life. Read More >
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Rams – Review
Iceland is a deep well for art. Music and cinema has enjoyed growing naturally there, happily removed from (most) of the pulls of regular Western sensibilities, a country whose expansive national imagination comes from an open heart and a sturdy soul. Read More >
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Dheepan – Review
The graceful fade-to-blacks that punctuate Dheepan, Jacques Audiard’s latest ball-busting, gritty drama, hint at the shadowy underside to its already blackened landscape. Whatever form the darkness takes next is typically a grim mockery of something innocent; light-up bunny ears (2 euro!) dissolve into focus from the murk, even though the scene just before has depicted… Read More >
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The Club – Review
Pablo Larraín has rather made a name for himself. He hasn’t even hit his forties yet, and the Chilean filmmaker has already made four features which resonated with audiences globally, their tales of powers large and small and the struggle to overcome them, felt by anyone in any country. His latest, The Club, is smaller… Read More >
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Timbuktu – Review
An ‘issue movie’ may find itself unexpectedly caught in its own lessons, unable to reconcile the many facets of an important real-world message with the intangible magic of cinema. But when that meeting of methods does turn out successfully, it’s almost always reason to celebrate. Call it a parable, a diatribe, a lesson; whatever label… Read More >
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Life of Riley – Review
91. That was the age at which Alain Resnais finally, and probably reluctantly, kissed this world goodbye and sailed onward into the great unknown, his fingers surrendering their grip on the camera lens after 68 years in the business of making movies. The French director was clearly in it for all the right reasons, a… Read More >
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Difret – Review
“a largely engrossing and at times very emotionally touching film”… Read More >
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White God – Review
“The opening shot of White God is one of the most startling you’ll see from an indie film all year: a deserted city in the middle of the day, and a lone bike with a young girl riding through the streets. But before we mistake it for a 28 Days Later sequel, we witness hundreds… Read More >
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