All Competition articles – Page 6
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Reviews‘Convenience Store’: Berlin Review
A bold based-on-real-life debut feature about modern-day slavery in a Russian convenience store
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Reviews‘The Novelist’s Film’: Berlin Review
The prolific DIY master Hong Sangsoo returns to Berlin with another playful comedy of manners
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Reviews‘Alcarras’: Berlin review
Carla Simon’s semi-autobiographical follow-up to ’Summer 1993’ impresses in the Berlinale’s Competition
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Reviews‘Leonora Addio’: Berlin Review
A ’gently idiosyncratic memento mori’ from 90 year-old Paulo Taviani, directing alone for the first time since the death of his brother
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Reviews‘That Kind Of Summer’: Berlin Review
Belinale habitue Denis Côté returns with a frank and difficult examination of female hypersexuality
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Reviews‘One Year, One Night’: Berlin Review
Powerful dramatisation of a couple’s survival of the Bataclan terrorist attack in Paris
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Reviews‘A Piece Of Sky’: Berlin Review
Michael Koch’s Alpine love story spans the intimate and metaphysical, moving at a glacial pace
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Reviews‘The Passengers Of The Night’: Berlin
Charlotte Gainsbourg leads Mikhaël Hers’ gentle, optimistic drama set in 1980s Paris
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Reviews‘AEIOU - A Quick Alphabet Of Love’: Berlin Review
Sophie Rois stars in Nicolette Krebitz’s whimsical romantic drama championing female desire
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Reviews‘Return To Dust’: Berlin Review
Anchored by an authentic relationship Li Ruijun’s portrait of provincial China is his most moving yet
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Reviews‘Both Sides Of The Blade’: Berlin Review
Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon are at the top of their game in Claire Denis’ love triangle drama
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Reviews‘Rabiye Kurnaz Vs George W. Bush’: Berlin Review
Well-intentioned German drama plays up the humour in this true-life fight for justice story
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Reviews‘Nana: Before, Now & Then’: Berlin Review
Kamila Andini’s fourth feature is a melancholy drama set during the Indonesian communist purge of the 1960s
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Reviews‘Everything Will Be OK’: Berlin Review
Rithy Panh’s iconic figurines imagine an overthrow of the human race with little hope for the future
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Reviews‘Rimini’: Berlin Review
Ulrich Seidl’s return to drama is characteristically bleak as he visits an ageing cabaret singer in Fellini’s famous home town
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Reviews‘The Line’: Berlin Review
Ursula Meier returns to the Swiss mountain suburbs to further explore fractured family dynamics
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Reviews‘Robe Of Gems’: Berlin Review
Natalia López Gallardo makes waves with her disquieting debut set in rural Mexico
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Reviews‘Peter von Kant’: Berlin Review
François Ozon’s gender-swap revamp of Fassbinder’s Petra von Kant serves ironic homage on Berlin’s opening night
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FeaturesBerlin 2022: Screen’s guide to the Competition titles
The Competition line-up includes new titles by Claire Denis, Phyllis Nagy, Rithy Panh, Hong Sangsoo, Francois Ozon and Denis Côté.
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Reviews‘Call Jane’: Sundance Review
Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver anchor Phyllis Nagy’s timely 1960s abortion drama