All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 8
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‘About Last Year’: Venice Review
Unusual documentary captures three cisgender friends as they find acceptance and release in Turin’s ballroom scene
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‘Sky Peals’: Venice Review
Moin Hussain’s intriguing arthouse tale of alienation in modern Britain plays out in Critics Week
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‘Tatami’: Venice Review
An Iran/Israel collaboration results in a first-class bout with politics in this tense judo drama
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‘The Vourdalak’: Venice Review
Tolstoy’s blood-sucking novella gets an imaginative reworking by French stylist Adrien Beau
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‘Life Is Not A Competition, But I’m Winning’: Venice Review
Inventive hybrid documentary from Germany takes a historical look at gender boundaries in competitive sport
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‘The Mission’: Telluride Review
Nat Geo doc traces the last fateful journey of missionary John Allen Chau to North Sentinel Island
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‘Chuck Chuck Baby’: Edinburgh Review
Janis Pugh’s musical debut is a feel-good second-time-lucky romance set in small-town Wales
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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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‘Double Blind’: Galway Review
Savvy Irish suspense/body horror leaves room open for a – not unwelcome – sequel
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‘A Greyhound Of A Girl’: Galway Review
A young girl confronts mortality in this colourful animated adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s novel
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‘The Miracle Club’: Galway Review
Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney head this long-gestating drama set in 1960s Ireland
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‘Background’: FIDMarseille Review
FIDMarseille’s International Competition winner follows a son’s attempt to learn more about his father’s past
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‘The Dive’: Munich Review
A diver fights to save her sister trapped under the waves in this claustrophobic English-language thriller from Germany.
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‘100 Seasons’: Transilvania Review
Auto-fiction by former Swedish ballet dancer Giovanni Bucchieri is honest and heartfelt
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‘Between Revolutions’: Transilvania Review
Vlad Petri’s hybrid documentary about the realities of revolution takes Best Romanian Feature at Transilvania
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‘Like A Fish On The Moon’: Transilvania Review
A young boy’s refusal to speak turns family life on its head in this Transilvania-winning drama from Iran
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‘L’Abbé Pierre - A Century Of Devotion’: Cannes Review
Benjamin Lavernhe takes the title role in this epic sweep through the social problems of modern France
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‘Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell’: Cannes Review
A man embarks on a physical and spiritual journey in this arresting debut drama from Vietnam
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‘The Buriti Flower’: Cannes Review
Docu-drama explores the relationship between the past and present for Brazil’s indigenous Krahô community