All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 16
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Reviews‘A Banquet’: Toronto Review
British director Ruth Paxton makes an arresting feature debut with this unsettling family psychodrama
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Reviews‘Hold Your Fire’: Toronto Review
Stefan Forbes’ absorbing documentary explores a landmark crime in Brooklyn 1973
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Reviews‘Miracle’: Venice Review
A white-knuckle morality tale from Romania is the second of a planned trilogy from Bogdan George Apetri
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Reviews‘Madeleine Collins’: Venice Review
Virginie Efira stars in this spider’s web of a film about a woman leading a seemingly impossible double life
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Reviews‘Becoming Cousteau’: Telluride Review
Liz Garbus directs this engaging documentary about Jacques Cousteau, showing how his story reflects the history of the environmental movement
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Reviews‘The Rescue’: Telluride Review
Immersive documentary about the 2018 rescue of a dozen Thai schoolboys from flooded caves
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Reviews‘Promises’: Venice Review
Smart political drama with fine performances from Isabelle Huppert and Reda Kateb opens Venice Horizons 2021
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Reviews‘The Righteous’: Fantasia Review
An intriguing, ambitious debut from Canada’s Mark O’Brien, consumed with guilt and matters of faith
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Reviews‘La Civil’: Cannes Review
Teodora Mihai makes an explosive fiction debut with this thriller set in Mexico
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Reviews‘Mariner Of The Mountains’: Cannes Review
Smooth sailing for Brazil’s Karim Ainouz as he traces his family’s recent past back to Algeria
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Reviews‘No Rest For The Old Lady’: Transilvania Review
Two old friends find their relationship tested in Andrei Gruzsniczki’s sensitive fourth feature
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Reviews‘Ride The Wave’: Galway Review
Young Scottish surfer Ben Larg tries to make a spash on the international stage in Martyn Robertson’s warm documentary
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Reviews‘Foscadh (Shelter)’: Galway Review
Sean Breathnach’s feature debut is the Irish-language tale of an isolated man forced to venture into the world
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Reviews‘#dogpoopgirl’: Transilvania Review
Andrei Hutuleac’s sparky debut wraps sharp social commentary in absurdist comedy
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Reviews‘Love Yourself Today’: Galway Review
Irish singer/songwriter Damien Dempsey takes centre stage in this rousing documentary
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Reviews‘Feathers’: Cannes Review
Unsettling, wry drama/comedy from Egypt is the winner of the 2021 Critics’ Week top prize at Cannes
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Reviews‘Europa’: Cannes Review
An Iraqi refugee desperate for a new life attempts to outrun bloodthirsty Turkish ‘migrant hunters’
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Reviews‘Women Do Cry’: Cannes Review
A powerful indictment of the patriarchy in Bulgaria from the directors of ’The Cat In The Wall’ and starring Maria Bakalova of ‘Borat 2’
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Reviews‘The Braves’: Cannes Review
A female friendship comes under strain in Anais Volpe’s Directors’ Fortnight title