All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 20
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2020: Allan Hunter
Hunter has worked for Screen since 1990. He is based in Edinburgh and is co-director of Glasgow Film Festival. Read our other critics’ top tens here.
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Reviews‘Narcissus Off Duty’: DocLisboa Review
Caetano Veloso revisits a time in Brazil when he was locked up for no reason in a softly emotional documentary
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Reviews‘Preparations To Be Together For An Unknown Period Of Time’: Review
Hungary’s Oscar submission is an elusive, noirish drama set to entice Hitchcock admirers
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Reviews‘Dormant’: IDFA Review
Natalia Labake’s film about the women in her family is haunted by lost souls and unfulfilled lives
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Reviews‘Landfall’: IDFA Review
The combination of the poetic and the polemical speaks volumes as Cecilia Aldarondo surveys the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
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Reviews‘Nothing But The Sun’: IDFA Review (Opening Film)
IDFA 2020 starts with a powerful and moving look at the disenfranchised Ayoreo people of Paraguay
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Reviews‘Death On The Streets’: Thessaloniki Review
A family man struggles to put bread on the table in this low-key examination of America’s bankrupt dream
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Reviews‘The Bright Side’: Cork Review
A despairing stand-up comic is diagosed with breast-cancer in Ruth Meehan’s appealing debut
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Reviews‘Hokusai’: Tokyo Review
Expansive biopic of Katsushika Hokusai, Japan’s most influential artist
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Reviews‘Amercement’: Thessaloniki Review
A small-time drug dealer in the outskirts of Athens gets a shot at a new life in this morality tale by Fokion Bogris
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Reviews‘My Dear Spies’: Doclisboa Review
Two grandsons try to decipher their family’s suspicious Cold War past
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Reviews‘Mr. Suzuki - A Man In God’s Country’: Tokyo Review
In a dystopian Japan, a single woman attempts to find a partner and avoid the persecution of society
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Reviews‘Underdog’: Tokyo Review
Masaharu Take’s Tokyo opener is the epic portrait of a boxer trying to recapture his former glory
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Reviews‘Summer Blur’: Busan Review
This sensitive, assured debut focuses on the anguished adolescence of a teenager who’s a bystander in her own life
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Reviews‘Red Soil’: Busan Review
This whistleblower drama, co-produced by the Dardenne brothers, is buoyed by strong performances
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Reviews‘Teddy’: Busan Review
Rising star Anthony Bajon is magnetic in a soulful horror film full of giggles and social commentary
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Reviews‘Kubrick By Kubrick’: Doclisboa Review
Elegant documentary which helps access the legendary director’s film-making processes
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Reviews‘Septet: The Story Of Hong Kong’: Busan Review (opening film)
Seven filmmakers contribute to this anthology series that offers misty-eyed memories and highly personal stories