All articles by Demetrios Matheou – Page 2
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Reviews‘Bring Down The Walls’: Belfast Review
The ills of the US criminal justice system inspire this audacious mix of commentary and house music
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Reviews‘The Campaign’: Transilvania Review
Marian Crisan gently explores political corruption through the experiences of a Romanian politician in a backwater town
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Reviews‘That Was Life’: Transilvania Review
A septuagenarian Spanish woman discoveres a new lease on life in David Martin de los Santos’s touching debut
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Reviews‘Petrov’s Flu’: Cannes Review
Incarcerated Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov sends his latest drama to Cannes Competition
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Reviews‘Medusa’: Cannes Review
Brazillian filmmaker Anita Rocha da Silveria cements her reputation with this stylish satire
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Reviews‘Babi Yar. Context’: Cannes Review
Sergei Loznitza turns his gaze to wartime Ukraine, and the 1941 massacre of Jews outsite Kiev, in this powerful documentary
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Reviews’Unclenching The Fists’: Cannes Review
Russian filmmaker Kira Kovalenko makes her debut with this intense, Un Certain Regard-winning family drama
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Reviews‘The Employer And The Employee’: Cannes Review
Uruguayan writer/director Manuel Nieto Zas debuts his farm-set drama in Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘Luchadoras’: Thessaloniki Review
A trio of female wrestlers do battle in and out of the ring in Juarez, Mexico
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Reviews‘The Count’: Thessaloniki Review
Documentarian John Blahed explores the life of his father’s infamous criminal cousin
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Reviews‘Nudo Mixteco’: Rotterdam Review
The stories of three women intersect in a Mixtec community in rural Mexico
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Reviews‘Cafe By The Highway’: Moscow Review
A scarred young woman befriends a Russian man who is searching for a lost space capsule in rural China
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Reviews‘Reconciliation’: CPH:DOX Review
In the mountains of Albania, a father seeks retribution for the murder of his daughter
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Reviews‘1991’: Miami Review
Schoolchildren are dragged into Guatemala’s Civil War in Sergio Ramirez’s second feature
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Features“I thought more about Donald Trump than anybody else”: Charles Dance talks ‘Mank’
The UK actor discusses his rich run of roles and reuniting with director David Fincher, nearly three decades after appearing in the ill‑fated ’Alien3’.
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Reviews‘Considering The Ends’: DOK Leipzig Review
A French shepherdess contemplates the lives - and deaths - of her herd of sheep
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Reviews‘Roman’s Childhood’: DOK Leipzig Review
Documentary about a Lithuanian family in straitened circumstances is unexpectedly uplifting
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Reviews‘Joy’: DOK Leipzig Review
Not much fun to be had in Daria Slyusarenko’s Russian circus documentary
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FeaturesRobert Eggers on why his actors endured “physical misery” whilst making ‘The Lighthouse’
Writer/director Robert Eggers tells Demetrios Matheou about conjuring up the intense atmosphere of The Lighthouse.
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Reviews‘The Coldest Game’: Tallinn Review
Bill Pullman is the alcoholic chess champion enlisted to help the Americans tackle the Cuban Missile Crisis