Locarno Reviews
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‘Critical Zone’: Locarno Review
Locarno’s controversial Golden Leopard winner takes a trip through Tehran’s night-time underbelly
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‘Dreaming & Dying’: Locarno Review
Double prize winner at Locarno is an aquatic, magical realist tale from Singapore
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‘First Case’: Locarno Review
Rising French star Noee Abita impresses as a legal assistant given the chance to work on a high-stakes case in rural France
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‘Family Portrait’: Locarno Review
US artist Lucy Kerr makes her debut with an unnerving Texas drama starring Deragh Campbell
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‘Falling Stars’: Locarno Review
A witch’s curse and a Wiccan revival form the basis of this US indie thriller, premiering on the Piazza Grande
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‘Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World’: Locarno Review
Radu Jude’s latest follows a beleagured Bucharest production assistant casting for a safety at work video
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‘Animal’: Locarno Review
A troupe of entertainers at an all-inclusive Greek island resort dig into a new season in Sofia Exarchou’s follow-up to ‘Park’
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‘The Falling Star’: Locarno Review
Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s typically-quirky comedy plays out in a Belgian beer bar
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‘Rule 34’: Locarno Review
Locarno’s Golden Leopard winner is a sensually intimate character study tackling hot-button subject matter
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‘You Will Not Have My Hate’: Locarno Review
One family’s grief in the wake of the 2015 Bataclan attack is chronicled in this sensitive, moving drama
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‘Matter Out Of Place’: Locarno Review
Nikolaus Geyrhalter returns with a sober, engrossing study of the waste society creates
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‘Astrakan’: Locarno Review
David Depesseville’s accomplished debut follows a wayward teen navigating the world of foster care
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‘Human Flowers Of Flesh’: Locarno Review
Writer-director Helena Wittmann returns with an elliptical study of a yachting trip around the Mediterranean
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‘Fairytale’: Locarno Review
The 20th century’s most notorious leaders reunite in Alexander Sokurov’s experimental deepfake feature
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‘Medusa Deluxe’: Locarno Review
This experimental one-take drama is a darkly comic meta-whodunnit set at a hairdressing competition
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‘My Neighbor Adolf’: Locarno Review
Udo Kier steals the show in this bittersweet comedy about a Holocaust survivor and his enigmatic new neighbour
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‘Tommy Guns’: Locarno Review
Carlos Conceicao’s confident, slyly deceptive second feature looks at young soldiers during wartime
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‘LOLA’: Locarno Review
A machine is able to hear broadcasts from the future in Andrew Legge’s imaginative found-footage feature debut
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‘Paradise Highway’: Review
Juliette Binoche takes to the wheel of this US-set generic drama set in the world of women truckers