Festival reviews – Page 108
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‘Soul Of A Beast’: Locarno Review
Early fatherhood and doomed young love are at the centre of Lorenz Merz’s ‘assaultively stylish’ Zurich-based drama
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‘Hotel Poseidon’: Fantasia Review
Welcome to Stef Lernous’ nightmarish debut, ’a repulsively compelling one-off’
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‘Hinterland’: Locarno Review
Back to Vienna of old with Stefan Ruzowitsky’s propulsive post-war thriller
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‘Respect’: Locarno Review
Jennifer Hudson tries on the role of the Queen of Soul in Locarno’s closing film
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‘Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’: Locarno Review
Indonesian auteur Edwin adapts Eka Kurniawan’s free-wheeling novel for the big scree
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‘The Devil’s Deal’: Fantasia Review
Lee Won-tae’s twisty thriller relishes the wickedness of its amoral characters
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‘Bull’: Fantasia Review
Paul Andrew Williams returns to grittier terrain for a visceral tale of revenge
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‘She Will’: Locarno Review
Charlotte Colbert’s unusual Gothic feature plays out in the world between art and horror
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‘Free Guy’: Locarno Review
Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer try to breathe life into Shawn Levy’s videogame action-comedy
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‘Beckett’: Locarno Review
Locarno opens with a chase across the Piazza Grande, courtesy of Netflix and John David Washington
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‘Spiritwalker’: Review
Body-swap thriller from Yoon Jae-keun get its premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival
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‘Olga’: Cannes Review
Swiss debut about an obsessive gymnast en route to the Olympics is a timely release for director Elie Grappe
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‘Voice Of Silence’: Fantasia Review
Strong performances highlight this thriller about a mute and the 11-year-old he’s assigned to safeguard
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‘La Civil’: Cannes Review
Teodora Mihai makes an explosive fiction debut with this thriller set in Mexico
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‘Mariner Of The Mountains’: Cannes Review
Smooth sailing for Brazil’s Karim Ainouz as he traces his family’s recent past back to Algeria
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‘No Rest For The Old Lady’: Transilvania Review
Two old friends find their relationship tested in Andrei Gruzsniczki’s sensitive fourth feature
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‘Ride The Wave’: Galway Review
Young Scottish surfer Ben Larg tries to make a spash on the international stage in Martyn Robertson’s warm documentary
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‘Who We Love’: Galway Review
An Irish schoolgirl is targeted for her sexuality in Graham Cantwell’s coming-of-age drama
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‘Foscadh (Shelter)’: Galway Review
Sean Breathnach’s feature debut is the Irish-language tale of an isolated man forced to venture into the world
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‘Pure Grit’: Galway Review
Kim Bartley spends three years on Wyoming’s Wind River reservation for a poignant study of Native American life