Festival reviews – Page 66
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Reviews‘No End’: Busan Review
Jafar Panahi collaborator Nader Saeivar’s second feature explores the manipulative nature of Iran’s police state
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Reviews‘a Wild Roomer’: Busan Review
A 30-something drifter attempts to find meaning in Lee Jeong-hong’s overlong feature debut
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Reviews‘Ajoomma’: Busan Review
A Singapore woman finds a new lease of life while on holiday in South Korea
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Reviews‘Memento Mori: Earth’: Busan Review
A young Vietnamese woman confronts impending death in Marcus Manh Cuong Vu’s delicate debut
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Reviews‘Blue Again’: Busan Review
A Thai student is torn between her fashion studies and her family’s indigo business in Thapanee Loosuwan’s unwieldy debut
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Reviews'The Origin’: London Review
A group of our Palaeolithic ancestors does battle against an unseen enemy in Andrew Cumming’s Stone Age chiller
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Reviews‘Six Characters’: Busan Review
A visually opulent, dutiful adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 play ’Six Characters in Search of an Author’
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Reviews‘Thousand And One Nights’: Busan Review
Two women adjust to life after their husbands go missing in Japanese director Nao Kubota’s return to the big screen
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Reviews‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’: London Review
The mistress and the gamekeeper meet again in this steamy Netflix adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic romance
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Reviews‘White Dog’: Hamburg Review
Denis Menochet and Kacey Rohl lead this story of Romain Gary, Jean Seberg and a racist hound
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Reviews‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical’: London Review
Matthew Warchus drives the Tim Minchin show from stage to screen for Working Title
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Reviews‘Scent Of Wind’: Busan Review
Busan opens with this update on the ‘Good Samaritan’ story set in remotest Iran and written and directed by Hadi Mohaghegh
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Reviews‘Eternal Spring’: Review
Canada’s Oscar contender is a documentary which looks back at the actions of Falun Gong members in China in 2002
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Reviews‘Autobiography’: Busan Review
Former critic Makbul Mubarak makes an impressive feature debut with this Indonesia-set tale of power and corruption
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Reviews‘Tora’s Husband’: Busan Review
Rima Das’ intimate drama shows a family man’s life unravelling in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Reviews‘Zwigato’: Busan Review
Kapil Sharma switches register to play a family man struggling with India’s gig economy in the latest from Nandita Das
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Reviews‘Vera’: Review
Italian socialite Vera Gemma plays a version of herself in Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s hybrid docudrama
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Reviews‘Till’: Review
The story of the racist murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till and his mother’s fight for justice
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Reviews‘We Are Next Of Kin’: Hamburg Review
The 1996 abduction of German scholar Jan Philipp Reemstma is explored through his teenage son’s eyes