All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 7
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‘Polaris’: Fantasia Review
Fantasia’s opener is a fast-paced and bloody parable set in a future suffering a permanent winter
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‘The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra’: Bifan Review
A lonely fungus seeks human contact in Park Syeyoung’s surprisingly wistful genre debut
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‘The Unstable Object II’: FIDMarseille Review
Daniel Eisenberg presents another closely-observed, absorbing portrait of three international businesses
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‘Lucie Loses Her Horse’: FIDMarseille Review
Claude Schmitz reworks his Covid-cancelled theatre production into a dreamlike drama about the power of performance
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‘Piano Dreams’: Galway Review
Gary Lennon documents the struggles and sacrifices of three wannabe piano stars in modern China
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‘The Sparrow’: Galway Review
Michael Kinirons makes a striking debut with this sensitively handled drama of a family lost in their grief
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‘Clouded Reveries’: Galway Review
Ciara Nic Chormaic presents an intimate, poetic portrait of writer Doireann Ni Ghriofa
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‘Joyride’: Galway Review
Opening the Galway Fleadh, Emer Reynolds’ somewhat contrived feelgood drama stars Olivia Colman and newcomer Charlie Reid
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‘Solastalgia’: Munich Review
Difficult issues of climate change inform Marina Hufnagel’s modest but effective docu-drama
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‘A Higher Law’: Transilvania Review
Octav Chelaru makes his debut with this carefully calibrated portrait of a woman who finds her faith tested
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‘Private Messages’: Transilvania Review
Filmmaker Matias Bize presents a selection of eight intimate pandemic-inspired monologues
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‘Good Girl Jane’: Tribeca Review
A double win for Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’s debut at Tribeca also honours Rain Spencer’s breakout performance in the title role
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‘Masquerade’: Cannes Review
Nicolas Bedos’ mystery thriller has the suspense and sardonic wit of the Hollywood classics
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‘Dodo’: Cannes Review
Panos Koutras’ chaotic comedy farce is an ambitious fresco of a family’s existential crisis
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‘1976’: Cannes Review
An impressive and moving debut from actor turned director Manuela Martelli
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‘Ashkal’: Cannes Review
Detectives investigate a spate of burning deaths in a politically volatile Tunisia
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‘Continental Drift’: Cannes Review
Lionel Baier sets a sentimental mother-son drama against the backdrop of a divided Europe
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‘Domingo And The Mist’: Cannes Review
The second feature from Ariel Escalante Meza is ’a mournful, achingly atmospheric tale’ set in rural Costa Rica
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‘Will-O’-The-Wisp’: Cannes Review
A prince on his deathbed reminisces about his time as a firefighter in Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ unpredictable drama