Festival reviews – Page 86
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Reviews‘About Joan’: Berlin Review
Isabelle Huppert leads a solid cast through this tonally uneven portrait of a woman that spans countries and decades
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Reviews‘Against The Ice’: Berlin Review
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars as Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen on an icy expedition to Northeast Greenland
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Reviews‘Alcarras’: Berlin review
Carla Simon’s semi-autobiographical follow-up to ’Summer 1993’ impresses in the Berlinale’s Competition
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Reviews‘Leonora Addio’: Berlin Review
A ’gently idiosyncratic memento mori’ from 90 year-old Paulo Taviani, directing alone for the first time since the death of his brother
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Reviews‘The City And The City’: Berlin Review
A heartfelt tribute to Thessaloniki highlighting its sorrowful history of antisemitism
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Reviews‘Until Tomorrow’: Berlin Review
A young single mother in Iran searches for a safe place for her baby for one night
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Reviews‘That Kind Of Summer’: Berlin Review
Belinale habitue Denis Côté returns with a frank and difficult examination of female hypersexuality
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Reviews‘The Outfit’: Berlin Review
Mark Rylance stars in Graham Moore’s handsome period crime drama debut
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Reviews‘Echo’: Berlin Review
Mareike Wegener’s fiction feature debut is a crime mystery with echoes of philosophical trauma
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Reviews‘One Year, One Night’: Berlin Review
Powerful dramatisation of a couple’s survival of the Bataclan terrorist attack in Paris
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Reviews‘A Piece Of Sky’: Berlin Review
Michael Koch’s Alpine love story spans the intimate and metaphysical, moving at a glacial pace
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Reviews‘Grand Jeté’: Berlin Review
Isabelle Stever’s bold and troubling drama of a reunited mother-son relationship pushes beyond motherly love
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Reviews‘Father’s Day’: Berlin Review
Three intersecting family stories reveal the lasting trauma of Rwanda’s violent history
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Reviews‘Small, Slow But Steady’: Berlin Review
Sombre, sensitive portrait of a young professional female boxer in Japan
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Reviews‘The Forger’: Berlin Review
Louis Hofmann leads an engaging drama based on Holocaust memoir set in wartime Berlin
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Reviews‘The Passengers Of The Night’: Berlin
Charlotte Gainsbourg leads Mikhaël Hers’ gentle, optimistic drama set in 1980s Paris
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Reviews‘Taurus’: Berlin Review
Machine Gun Kelly conjures up this cliche’d tale of an addled rock star for director Tim Sutton
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Reviews‘AEIOU - A Quick Alphabet Of Love’: Berlin Review
Sophie Rois stars in Nicolette Krebitz’s whimsical romantic drama championing female desire
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Reviews‘1341 Frames of Love and War’: Berlin Review
Israeli documentarian Ran Tal brings war photographer Micha Bar-Am’s work into focus
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Reviews‘Brother In Every Inch’: Berlin Review
Alexander Zolotukhin’s second feature, centred around twin Russian military pilot cadets, is an impressive visual feat