Festival reviews – Page 95
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Reviews‘Farewell, My Hometown’: Busan Review
Three generations of Chinese women talk about their lives in Er Zhuo Wang’s fiction-documentary hybrid
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Reviews'The Tender Bar’: London Review
Ben Affleck and Tye Sheridan star in George Clooney’s adaptation of a writer’s memoirs set in Long Island of the 1970s and 80s
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Reviews‘24’: Busan Review
Royston Tan’s latest art-house charmer follows a sound engineer on a journey across 24 different environments
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Reviews‘Ron’s Gone Wrong’: London Review
Debut animation from UK-based Locksmith Animation is deft and appealing
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Reviews‘Gensan Punch’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza’s latest follows an aspiring boxer who refuses to let disability define him
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Reviews‘Memoryland’: Busan Review
Kim Quy Bui’s beautifully composed sophomore feature explores attitudes about death in Vietnam
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Reviews‘House Of Time’: Busan Review
Covid-inspired, ’Groundhog Day’-style supernatural drama finds a doctor trapped in a house with three generations of women
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Reviews‘The Apartment With Two Women’: Busan Review
Kim Se-in’s unflinching debut chronicles a mother and daughter at war
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Reviews‘Pedro’: Busan Review
Natesh Hegde’s ruminative character study follows a man ostracised from his community
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Reviews‘The Absent Director’: Busan Review
An audacious single-shot drama that follows an Iranian theater company staging an experimental ‘Macbeth’
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Reviews‘Mothers Of The Revolution’: London Review
Briar March’s gripping documentary celebrates the women protesters of Greenham Common
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Reviews‘Red Pomegranate’: Busan Review
A pregnant, abandoned wife must fend for herself in Sharipa Urazbayeva’s study of sexual violence and poverty
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Reviews‘Asteroid’: Busan Review
Mehdi Hoseinivand Aalipour’s affectionate first film observes the tender bonds of one Iranian family
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Reviews‘Seire’: Busan Review
A disorienting, accomplished psychological drama about a new father grappling with superstition and guilt
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Reviews’Photocopier’: Busan Review
A compelling tech-thriller about a computing student getting to the bottom of what happened to her last night at a party
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Reviews‘Missing’: Busan Review
A bereft widower pursues a serial killer in Katayama Shinzo’s ambitious second feature
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Reviews‘The Harder They Fall’: London Review (opening film)
Jonathan Majors and Idris Elba face off in Jeymes Samuel’s vigorously entertaining Western
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Reviews‘Quiet Freedom’: Hamburg Review
Dagmar Manzel and Rolf Lassgard give award-worthy performances as a married couple grappling with old age
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Reviews‘Wolka’: Hamburg Review
Late filmmaker Arni Olafur Asgeirsson delivers a flinty thriller set within a tight-knit Icelandic community
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Reviews‘Unwanted’: San Sebastian Review
Russian drama is a challenging winner of the New Directors award at Spain’s premier festival