All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 3
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Reviews‘Perfumed With Mint’: Venice Review
A decaying Egyptian city teems with ghosts both literal and metaphorical in this meditative debut
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Reviews‘My Birthday’: Venice Review
Raw debut from Italy from Biennale College follows a young man trying to find his estranged mother on the eve of his 18th birthday
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Reviews‘Maldoror’: Venice Review
Anthony Bajon is a police officer determined to crack a Belgian paedophile ring in Fabrice du Welz’s tense police procedural
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Reviews‘No Sleep Till’: Venice Review
Time stops for the few remaining residents of a Florida coastal town before the hurricane hits in this contemplative US debut
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Reviews‘Peacock’: Venice Review
Albrecht Schuch headlines this assured Austrian debut as a paid companion whose facade starts to crumble
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Reviews‘Quiet Life’: Venice Review
A Russian family seeking asylum in Sweden face the unexpected in this unsettling drama
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Reviews‘A Shrine’: Edinburgh Review
Mobile phone-shot drama about an Iranian ex-pat in Montreal and a dubious get-rich-quick scheme he comes to regret
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Reviews‘All The Mountains Give’: Edinburgh Review
Kurdish smugglers eke out an existence in the Iran/Iraq borderlands in this impressive documentary filmed over six years
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Reviews‘Hell Hole’: Fantasia Review
The latest from the Adams Family sees an American fracking crew in Serbia dig up more than they bargained for
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Reviews‘Poison’: Galway Review
Tim Roth and Trine Dyrholm power this Luxembourg-set drama about grief and forgiveness
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Reviews‘Fidil Ghorm’: Galway Review
TV director Anne McCabe makes her feature debut with this County Donegal-set drama about the power of music
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Reviews‘Xoftex’: Munich Review
Life in limbo in a Greek refugee camp leads one bright teenage boy to crumble under the pressure
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Reviews‘Smell Of Burnt Milk’: Munich Review
A graduation feature set on a family farm is one to watch in Munich’s New German Cinema selection
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Reviews‘Dismissed’: Transilvania Review
A suspicious fire at an AI corporation fuels this inventive faux documentary which won Transilvania’s Romanian Days
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Reviews‘Kix’: Transilvania Review
Transilvania doc winner captures the life of a Hungarian boy over more than a decade
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Reviews‘Satu - Year Of The Rabbit’: Raindance Review
A boy searching for his long-lost mother through Laos in this appealing debut from UK director Joshua Trigg
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Reviews‘Flow’: Cannes Review
Tour-de-force animation about a cat and his fellow tsunami survivors is an Un Certain Regard standout
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Reviews‘Niki’: Cannes Review
Charlotte Le Bon embodies French artist Niki de Saint-Phalle in Celine Sallette’s vivid biopic
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Reviews‘Filmlovers!’: Cannes Review
Arnaud Desplechin celebrates his life-long love of cinema through the experiences of alter-ego protagonist Paul Dedalus
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Reviews‘The Brink Of Dreams’: Cannes Review
An all-female Egyptian street theatre troupe act out their frustrations in this appealing Critics Week documentary