All articles by Demetrios Matheou – Page 2
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‘Medusa’: Cannes Review
Brazillian filmmaker Anita Rocha da Silveria cements her reputation with this stylish satire
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‘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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’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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‘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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‘Luchadoras’: Thessaloniki Review
A trio of female wrestlers do battle in and out of the ring in Juarez, Mexico
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‘The Count’: Thessaloniki Review
Documentarian John Blahed explores the life of his father’s infamous criminal cousin
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‘Nudo Mixteco’: Rotterdam Review
The stories of three women intersect in a Mixtec community in rural Mexico
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‘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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‘Reconciliation’: CPH:DOX Review
In the mountains of Albania, a father seeks retribution for the murder of his daughter
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‘1991’: Miami Review
Schoolchildren are dragged into Guatemala’s Civil War in Sergio Ramirez’s second feature
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“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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‘Considering The Ends’: DOK Leipzig Review
A French shepherdess contemplates the lives - and deaths - of her herd of sheep
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‘Roman’s Childhood’: DOK Leipzig Review
Documentary about a Lithuanian family in straitened circumstances is unexpectedly uplifting
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‘Joy’: DOK Leipzig Review
Not much fun to be had in Daria Slyusarenko’s Russian circus documentary
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Robert 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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‘The Coldest Game’: Tallinn Review
Bill Pullman is the alcoholic chess champion enlisted to help the Americans tackle the Cuban Missile Crisis
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‘Willow’: Tallinn Review
Three women in different times and places struggle in their attempts to become mothers
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‘Lost Lotus’: Tallinn Review
A grieving Chinese woman attempts to hunt down her mother’s hit-and-run killers
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‘Tomorrow We Are Free’: Tallinn Review
An Iranian journalist returns to Tehran with his family during the Islamic Revolution of 1979
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‘Sin’: Tallinn Review
Alberto Testoni puts in a skilled performance as Michelangelo in Andrei Konchalovsky’s revisionist biopic