Festival reviews – Page 5
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Reviews‘Mickey 17’ review: Bong Joon Ho unites with Robert Pattinson for quirky near-future drama
Long-awaited follow-up to Parasite is a ’proudly idiosycratic’ affair
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Reviews‘Deaf’ review: A new baby poses challenges for her hearing-impaired mother in Spanish debut
Eva Libertad’s thoughtful feature stars her sister, Miram Garlo
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Reviews‘The Good Sister’ review: Siblings face down an accusation of rape in sharp German debut
Panorama title explores the extent of family ties
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Reviews’The Devil Smokes’ review: Potent Mexican debut tracks five siblings over a traumatic summer
Ernesto Martínez Bucio’s film bows in Berlin’s new Perspectives section
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Reviews‘Ari’ review: Léonor Serraille delivers an engaging Rohmer-style drama
Lille-set piece is the third film from the director of ’Montparnasse Bienvenue’
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Reviews‘Hot Milk’ review: Emma Mackey anchors uneven adaptation of Deborah Levy novel
’Sex Education’ star headlines Berlin Competition title with Vicky Krieps and Fiona Shaw
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Reviews‘Growing Down’ review: Father lies to protect his son in tense Hungarian debut
Balint Daniel Sos’s feature bows in Berlin’s Perspectives section
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Reviews‘Night Stage’ review: Sexy queer drama from Brazil has thematic smarts to match
Felipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon’s third feature premieres in Berlin’s Panorama
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Reviews‘No Beast. So Fierce.’ review: Richard III moves to modern Berlin, and becomes Rashida
Burhan Qurbani’s female-centric fourth feature plays as a Berlin Special screening
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Reviews‘Christy’ review: A casualty of the care system struggles on a tough Irish estate
Brendan Canty’s debut is an extension of his short film and opens Berlin’s Generation 14plus
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Reviews‘Little Trouble Girls’ review: Erotic Slovenian debut mines fertile teenage terrain
An introverted Catholic girl’s sexual awakening is the focus of Urska Djukic’s debut
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Reviews‘Home Sweet Home’ review: Subdued Danish care worker drama stars Jette Søndergaard
Frelle Petersen’s latest plays in Berlin’s Panorama
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Reviews‘Living The Land’ review: Huo Meng’s story of rural China in the 90s is immersive and ambitious
Berlin Competition title is an intimate epic of the PRC’s heartland
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Reviews‘Welcome Home Baby’ review: Austrian genre title opens Panorama at Berlin
Julia Franz Richter takes centre stage in this conventional, if atmospheric, horror
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Reviews‘The Light’ review: Tom Tykwer’s Berlin opener is a murky meld of fantasy and drama
Lars Eidinger heads an accomplished cast in the director’s return to German-language cinema
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Reviews‘Dreams In Nightmares’: Queer black femmes shine in confident reframing of the road trip movie
Shatara Michelle Ford’s feature premiered at Black Star and screens at the Berlinale
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Reviews’Fiume O Morte!’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam’s Tiger winner inventively re-enacts the 1919 occupation of Fiume by Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio
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Reviews‘Raptures’: Rotterdam Review
Intense religious fervour brings fear to a 1930s Swedish village in Rotterdam’s Big Screen winner
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Reviews‘Wind, Talk To Me’: Rotterdam Review
Hybrid Serbian drama is an affecting creative meditation on grief
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Reviews‘Third Act’: Sundance Review
Portrait of Asian American filmmaker Robert M Nakamura by his son, Tadashi