Festival reviews – Page 57
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Reviews‘Bad Living’: Berlin Review
A crumbling hotel in a Portugese seaside village is the setting for Joao Canijo’s first of two linked films to play at the Berlinale
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Reviews‘20,000 Species Of Bees’: Berlin Review
This assured Spanish debut about an eight-year-old transgender girl should create a buzz in Berlin competition
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Reviews‘Family Time’: Berlin Review
An uncomfortable family Christmas is the setting for this unconventional Finnish debut
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Reviews‘The Plough’: Berlin Review
The Garrel clan turn out in force for father Philippe’s domestic saga, set in a family of puppeteers
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Reviews‘Music’: Berlin Review
German filmmaker Angela Schanelec brings her oddly fascinating update of the Oedipus myth to Berlin Competition
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Reviews‘#Manhole’: Berlin Review
Yuto Nakajima is stuck for the duration of Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s genre potboiler
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Reviews’Seneca - On The Creation Of Earthquakes’: Berlin Review
John Malkovich is the posturing Roman senator in Robert Schwentke’s showboating historical drama
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Reviews‘Do You Love Me?’: Berlin Review
Semi-autogiographical feature about a Ukranian girl coming of age during the collapse of the USSR
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Reviews‘Golda’: Berlin Review
Helen Mirren stars as the Israeli premier during the tense days of 1973’s Yom Kippur War
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Reviews‘Inside’: Berlin Review
A thief (Willem Dafoe) has plenty of time to figure out the true value of art when he’s locked down with it interminably
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Reviews‘The Burdened’: Berlin Review
A struggling couple in Aden face up to hard choices in Amr Gamal’s abortion drama
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Reviews‘Totem’: Berlin Review
Lila Avilés follows ‘The Chambermaid’ with this elegant drama of a family in crisis
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Reviews‘Mad Fate’: Berlin Review
A fortune teller and a hardbitten cop collide in Soi Cheang’s madcap drama
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Reviews‘Disco Boy’: Berlin Review
Franz Rogowski is a magnetic presence in Giacomo Abbruzzese’s drama about the French Foreign Legion
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Reviews‘Femme’: Berlin Review
A drag queen takes revenge after being beaten up in this subversive UK thriller starrting Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay
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Reviews‘Kiss The Future’: Berlin Review
Sarajevo under siege and Irish stadium rockers U2 form an unexpected alliance in Nenad Cicin-Sain’s polished doc
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Reviews‘Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey Into The Desert’: Berlin Review
Vicky Krieps takes the lead in this sumptuous portrait of German prefeminist writer Ingeborg Bachmann
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Reviews‘Sisi & I’: Berlin Review
Another portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria is enlivened by Sandra Hüller as her lady-in-waiting
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Reviews’Silver Haze’: Berlin Review
‘Dirty God’ director Sacha Polak and star Vicky Knight reunite for this drama based loosely on Knight’s own life
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Reviews‘The Castle’: Berlin Review
A neglected castle in the Argentinian pampas is the setting for Martin Benchimol’s eccentric documentary