Festival reviews – Page 45
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Reviews‘All Of Us Strangers’: Telluride Review
Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal anchor Andrew Haigh’s heartbreakingly pure 1980s drama
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Reviews‘Saltburn’: Telluride Review
Emerald Fennell follows up ‘Promising Young Woman’ with this spiky portrait of the British upper classes
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Reviews‘The Mission’: Telluride Review
Nat Geo doc traces the last fateful journey of missionary John Allen Chau to North Sentinel Island
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Reviews‘Dogman’: Venice Review
Luc Besson’s tale of a troubled man who finds salvation through his love of dogs has more bark than bite.
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Reviews‘Ferrari’: Venice Review
Adam Driver gets behind the wheel of Michael Mann’s 1950s Italian period piece which never quite hits top gear
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Reviews‘Upon Open Sky’: Venice Review
A teenage trio go on the hunt for revenge in this lacklustre road movie penned by Guillermo Arriaga
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Reviews‘El Conde’: Venice Review
Pablo Larrain’s high-concept Netflix drama featuring Augusto Pinochet as an ageing vampire lacks bite
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Reviews‘City Of Wind’: Venice Review
A 17 year-old shaman comes of age in this remarkably-assured debut feature from Mongolia
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Reviews‘God Is A Woman’: Venice Review
Panama’s indigenous Kuna fight to reclaim a documentary filmed in their community in 1975
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Reviews‘Comandante’: Venice Review
Venice opens with this pointed dramatisation of a World War II story in which a Fascist submarine commander rescued the people he torpedoed
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Reviews’Choose Irvine Welsh’: Edinburgh Review
Rambling exploration of the life and lurid times of Scottish author Irvine Welsh
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Reviews‘Kill’: Edinburgh Review
A forest hunting trip takes a dark turn in this effective Scottish genre debut
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Reviews‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde’: Edinburgh Review
Hope Dickson Leach’s inventive hybrid production moves the gothic novel to Edinburgh with the National Theatre of Scotland
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Reviews‘Chuck Chuck Baby’: Edinburgh Review
Janis Pugh’s musical debut is a feel-good second-time-lucky romance set in small-town Wales
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Reviews‘What’s To Be Done’: Sarajevo Review
Godan Devic continues his work documenting Croatia’s difficult transition to capitalism through the bankruptcy of a rolling stock company
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Reviews‘Silent Roar’: Edinburgh Review
Edinburgh’s opening film is set on a beautifully-shot Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides
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Reviews‘Europa’: Sarajevo Review
Slow-burn rural thriller starring Lilith Stangenberg is set in an Albania grappling with modernisation
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Reviews‘Bottlemen’: Sarajevo Review
Roma men scrabble to make a living on a huge rubbish dump near Belgrade in this empathetic Serbian documentary
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Reviews‘Medium’: Sarajevo Review
A teenage girl explores the first flushes of love against the backdrop of a blazing Athens summer
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Reviews‘Guardians Of The Formula’: Sarajevo Review
A 1950s Belgrade reactor leak presents opportunities for medical experimentation in this semi-fictionalised drama