Festival reviews – Page 82
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Reviews‘Tchaikovsky’s Wife’: Cannes Review
Alena Mikhailova gives an intense lead performance in Kirill Serebrennikov’s ’brooding prestige monument’
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Reviews‘Exterior Night’: Cannes Review
Marco Bellocchio returns to familiar territory with a TV series dramatising the kidnapping of Italian politican Aldo Moro
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Reviews‘Scarlet’: Cannes Review
Directors’ Fortnight opens with Pietro Marcello’s unusual period semi-musical drama
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Reviews‘Final Cut’: Cannes Review
Cannes opens with plenty of laughs in Michel Hazanavicius’ delightfully silly meta zombie remake
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Reviews‘Geographies Of Solitude’: Jeonju Review
Jeonju prize-winner is a beguiling and poetic film set on an isolated strip of land in Canada’s far reaches
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Reviews‘Jeong-sun’: Jeonju Review
Jeonju’s Korean competition prize winner is an intimate and understated exploration of cyberbullying and shame
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Reviews‘Girl Who Dreams About Time’: Jeonju Review
Pared-back doc about a young woman torn between the lure of normal life and a higher calling
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Reviews‘Tales From The Occult’: Udine Review
The first instalment of a new Hongkong horror omnibus gives old school scares with a contemporary twist
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Reviews‘Table For Six’: Udine Review
Sunny Chan serves up a light-hearted, soft-boiled comedy about misguided romance
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Reviews‘Manila By Night’: Udine Review
Ishmael Bernal’s once banned queer classic is beautifully restored and, finally, exposed
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Reviews‘A Human Position’: Jeonju Review
A soulful, pensive character drama about a young Norwegian journalist coming to terms with trauma
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Reviews‘Raydio’: Jeonju Review
A subdued Taiwanese drama about an estranged father and son searching for a connection
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Reviews‘Rabid’: Udine Review
Erik Matti’s bloody horror anthology is hungry for laughs, with a side of social critique
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Reviews‘All Of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars’: Visions du Reel Review
Jennifer Rainsford’s debut feature doc traces connections made by people grieving loved ones lost in Japan’s 2011 tsunami
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Reviews‘5 Dreamers And A Horse’: Visions du Reel Review
In Armenia, four subjects search for their place in society through a series of quirky vignettes
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Reviews‘How To Save A Dead Friend’: Visions du Reel Review
A fearsomely candid and moving documentary about being young and rebellious in Putin’s Russia
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Reviews‘Il Posto - A Steady Job’: Visions du Reel Review
A thoughtful exploration of the public sector jobs crisis in Italy, exacerbated by the pandemic
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Reviews‘Foragers’: Visions du Reel Review
Palestinians banned from growing the herb za’atar defy the laws in this artful, but very piquantly spiced documentary.
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Reviews‘Inner Lines’: Visions du Reel Review
A poetic, moving account of the psychological effects of war on the Yazidi people
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Reviews‘Dogwatch’: Visions du Reel Review
A highly entertaining and absurdist account of the armed guards who spend their lives at sea waiting for pirates that never come