Festival reviews – Page 36
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Reviews‘The Quiet Maid’: Tallinn Review
The Colombian maid for a wealthy Spanish family begins to expand her own horizons in this accomplished debut
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Reviews‘Touched’: Thessaloniki Review
A paralysed man embarks on a clandestine relationship with his care assistant in this frank German drama
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Reviews‘Guest Star’: Thessaloniki Review
Vasilis Christofilakis writes, directs and stars in this Greek celebrity satire
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Reviews‘Cafe’: Thessaloniki Review
Jailed Iranian filmmaker Navid Mihanoust presents an self-referential tale of a director living in limbo while waiting for a prison sentence
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Reviews‘We Have Never Been Modern’: Thessaloniki Review
Period Czech drama set at the dawn of the Second World War has a decidedly modern sensibility
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Reviews‘Patient #1’: Tallinn Review
A young nurse in Moscow at the end of the Soviet era struggles to care for a VIP patient
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Reviews‘Murderess’: Thessaloniki Review
Unrelentingly brutal period drama about an ageing midwife who battles the patriarchy in a remote Greek village
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Reviews‘A Picture To Remember’: IDFA Review
IDFA 2023 opens with an intimate film about the effects of war on one Ukranian family
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Reviews‘Snow In Midsummer’: Review
Festival heavyweight revisits the tragic race riots that occured in Kuala Lumpur on May 13, 1969
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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