Festival reviews – Page 77
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Reviews‘Aurora’s Sunrise’: Annecy Review
The remarkable life of Armenian genocide survivor Aurora Mardiganian is turned into a gripping animation
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Reviews‘The Black Pharaoh, The Savage And The Princess’: Annecy Review
Legendary French animator Michel Ocelot returns with three stories that span different eras and locales
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Reviews‘Nayola’: Annecy Review
Stunning feature animation debut depicts the horror of war from a female perspective
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Reviews‘My Love Affair With Marriage’: Annecy Review
Signe Baumane’s entertaining second feature is a loosely autobiographical tale of a woman’s history of failed relationships
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Reviews‘Aisha’: Tribeca Review
Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor excel in Frank Berry’s moving story about an asylum seeker in Ireland’s direct provision system
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Reviews‘Woman On The Roof’: Tribeca Review
Anna Jadowska’s 2021 ’Screen Best Pitch’ award-winner is a bleak, unwavering portrait of an ageing woman in a depressive state
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Reviews‘McEnroe’: Tribeca Review
Ambitious documentary portrait follows the infamous bad boy of tennis
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Reviews‘Somewhere In Queens’: Tribeca Review
Ray Romano makes his directorial debut with a wistful drama about a middle-aged father and his teenage son
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Reviews‘Lynch/Oz’: Tribeca Review
The Wizard Of Oz offers a new prism through which to make meaning from David Lynch’s films in this layered video essay
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ReviewsCannes 2022: the stand-out short films
Screen mentee and Unifrance Critics Lab participant Alexandria Slater journeys through this year’s short films from Cannes.
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Reviews‘Masquerade’: Cannes Review
Nicolas Bedos’ mystery thriller has the suspense and sardonic wit of the Hollywood classics
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Reviews‘Mother And Son’: Cannes Review
A sensitive and complex triptych of a migrant family from the Ivory Coast arriving in 1980s France
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Reviews‘Showing Up’: Cannes Review
Michelle Williams stars in Kelly Reichardt’s first Cannes Competition entry, a wry comedy about a solitary sculptor
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Reviews‘The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou’: Cannes Review
Lucas Delangle’s offbeat debut concerns a young man torn between mysticism and music
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Reviews‘Magdala’: Cannes Review
Damien Manivel creates a gentle, unhurried portrait of Mary Magdalene in this melancholy autumnal tale
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Reviews‘Salam’: Cannes Review
Doc exploring French rap star Diam’s mental health and conversion to Islam is compromised by the involvement of its subject
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Reviews‘For The Sake Of Peace’: Cannes Review
Forest Whitaker-backed doc follows two young South Sudanese people determined to reclaim their country
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Reviews‘The Beasts’: Cannes Review
Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s psychological thriller about outsiders in a Galician village is ’a brooding, muscular piece of filmmaking’
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Reviews‘Dodo’: Cannes Review
Panos Koutras’ chaotic comedy farce is an ambitious fresco of a family’s existential crisis
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Reviews‘Close’: Cannes Review
Lukas Dhont’s |Grand Prix-winning picture is an intimate, quietly devastating study of childhood friendship between two boys