Festival reviews – Page 11
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Reviews‘Melk’: Thessaloniki Review
A grieving mother must find a way to come to terms with her loss in this quiet Dutch debut
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Reviews‘The Last Taxi Driver’: Thessaloniki Review
A taxi driver is pulled into a dangerous obsession in this intense Greek drama
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Reviews‘Cottontail’: Rome Review
Lily Franky plays a Japanese widower on a sentimental journey to England’s Lake Windermere
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Reviews‘Stolen’: Mumbai Review
Stolen baby drama from India spins out at a breakneck pace for debut director Karan Tejpal
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Reviews‘Without Air’: Thessaloniki Review
Debut feature explores Hungarian conservatism through the microcosm of a high school scandal
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Reviews‘The Red Suitcase’: Mumbai Review
Nepalese debut follows roads less travelled - both visually and in terms of its oblique narrative
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Reviews‘Toll’: Review
A traditional Brazilian mother butts heads with her gay son in Rome’s breakout Best Film winner
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Reviews‘The Melusinas At The Edge Of The River’: Doclisboa Review
Winner of Doclisboa’s Portugese competition blends a Luxembourg fairytale with the modern immigrant experience
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Reviews‘SCALA!!!’: London Review
Affectionate documentary recalls the 1980s glory days of London’s iconic Scala cinema
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Reviews‘Earth Altars’: Doclisboa Review
Doclisboa winner is a personal exploration of the relationship between the body and the earth
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Reviews‘Freud’s Last Session’: AFI Fest Review
Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode star in this imagined wartime meeting of minds between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis
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Reviews‘Air’: Tokyo Review
Alexey German Jr focuses on female Russian pilots in this surprsingly conventional Second World War drama
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Reviews‘Lumberjack The Monster’: Tokyo Review
A psychopathic lawyer faces off against a masked serial killer in Takashi Miike’s blood-soaked latest
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Reviews‘Shadow Of Fire’: Tokyo Review
In the devastating aftermath of the Second World War, survivors face a hard-scrabble existence
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Reviews‘A Long Shot’: Tokyo Review
Debut about an armed heist at a Chinese factory in the mid-1990s is inspired by true events
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Reviews‘Gondola’: Tokyo Review
Two cable car attendants in Western Georgia make a connection in this dialogue-free romance
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Reviews‘Fly Me To The Moon’: Tokyo Review
Strong, buzzy debut from Sasha Chuk follows a family over two decades as they move from China to Hong Kong
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Reviews‘Blind At Heart’: Tokyo Review
An independent woman struggles to make her mark in 1930s Berlin in the latest from Barbara Albert
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Reviews‘There’s Still Tomorrow’: Rome Review
Actress-turned director Paola Cortellesi’s black-and-white post-war Italian drama opens Rome
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Reviews‘Stopmotion’: London Review
A stop-motion animator is driven mad by her own creations in this atmospheric British horror