All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 9
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Reviews‘Little Girl Blue’: Cannes Review
Marion Cotillard stars in Mona Achache’s vivid doc-hybrid reconstruction of her late mother’s troubled life
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Reviews‘Bread And Roses’: Cannes Review
Jennifer Lawrence-backed doc reveals a powerful resistance against the Taliban amongst Afghan women
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Reviews’Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry’: Cannes Review
An independent middle-aged woman reaches a crisis point in this endearingly-acted Georgia-set romantic drama
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Reviews‘Liv Ullmann - A Road Less Travelled’: Cannes Review
Insightful, wide-ranging documentary explores Liv Ullmann’s life and work in cinema and activism
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Reviews‘Vincent Must Die’: Cannes Review
An ordinary man finds himself in the middle of a pandemic of violence in Stephan Castang’s edgy horror
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Reviews‘In Flames’: Cannes Review
A young Pakistani woman endures the horrors of a patriarchal society in this slow-burn Karachi-set thriller
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Reviews‘Ama Gloria’: Cannes Review
A six-year-old girl must contend with losing her beloved nanny in this ’charmed, heartwarming’ Critics Week opening film
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Reviews’Where Would You Like To Go?’: Jeonju Review
Jeonju’s closing film is partially set in Warsaw where a widow attempts to navigate her grief after a sudden tragedy
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Reviews‘While The Green Grass Grows’: Visions Du Reel Review
Grand Prix winner at Visions du Reel is part of an epic, personal project from director Peter Mettler
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Reviews‘Machtat’: Visions du Reel Review
A trio of female wedding singers find freedom in their art in this involving Tunisian documentary
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Reviews‘Stolen’: Dublin Review
Margo Harkin’s documentary about mother and baby homes is essential viewing for Irish society
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Reviews‘Notes From Sheepland’: Dublin Review
Life with Wexford shepherd Orla Barry makes for an entrancing, compact documentary
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Reviews‘Do You Love Me?’: Berlin Review
Semi-autogiographical feature about a Ukranian girl coming of age during the collapse of the USSR
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Reviews‘Opponent’: Berlin Review
An Iranian refugee in Sweden struggles to hide his true identity in Milad Alami’s attention-grabbing second feature
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Reviews‘The Quiet Migration’: Berlin Review
An adopted Korean teenager struggles with life in rural Denmark in Malene Choi’s understated second feature
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Reviews‘Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’: Sundance Review
This Sundance Grand Jury prizewinner is an unconventional documentary about African American poet Nikki Giovanni
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Reviews‘The Persian Version’: Sundance Review
Layla Mohammadi is a standout in Maryam Keshavarz’s crowdpleasing Iranian-American drama
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Reviews‘20 Days In Mariupol’: Sundance Review
Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov presents an unflinching account of the early days of the Russian invasion
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Reviews‘Four Little Adults’: Rotterdam Review
A middle-class couple try a lifestyle of polyamory in this Finnish comedy of manners
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Reviews‘Drift’: Sundance Review
Cynthia Erivo stars in Anthony Chen’s sensitive, understated third feature, set on a Greek island