Festival reviews – Page 13
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‘September 1923’: Busan Review
Powerful dramatisation of a massacre that followed an earthquake in Japan a century ago
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‘24 Hours With Gaspar’: Busan Review
A detective with 24 hours to live attempts to close a longstanding case in this dystopian actioner from Indonesia
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‘Bonus Track’: London Review
Two 16-year-old boys navigate a tentative romance in this 2006-set romantic comedy
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‘Moro’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza explores the enduring conflict in Mindanao through the tale of two warring brothers
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‘Borrowed Time’: Busan Review
The lines between past and present blur as a Chinese woman searches for her father in Hong Kong
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‘Oasis Of Now’: Busan Review
An undocumented Vietnamese woman lives life on the margins in Malaysia in Chia Chee Sum’s debut
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‘The Bikeriders’: London Review
Jodie Comer and Austin Butler star in Jeff Nichols’ freewheeling ode to the bikerider gangs of old
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‘Celluloid Underground’: London Review
Personal essay recalls a man who defied the authorities to preserve Iranian film after the revolution
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‘Unmoored’: London Review
A Swedish TV host attempts to find sanctuary on the wilds of Exmoor in this atmospheric debut
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‘Kyrie’: Busan Review
J-pop stars AiNA THE END and Matsumura Hokuto star in this music-infused Japanese drama from Shunji Iwai
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‘The Pigeon Tunnel’: London Review
Errol Morris talks with John LeCarre in the late author’s last, no-holds-barred interview
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‘Solids By The Seashore’: Busan Review
Romance blossoms in a south Thailand coastal town affected by climate change in this tender if unfortunately-named debut
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‘The Exorcist: Believer’: Review
The first in a planned new Exorcist trilogy from director David Gordon Green fails to live up to its legacy
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‘Because I Hate Korea’: Busan Review
Busan’s opening film follows a disaffected South Korean woman who flees Seoul for New Zealand
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‘The Monk And The Gun’: Busan Review
’A Yak In The Classroom’ director takes notes from Robert Altman for this Bhutan-set political satire
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‘Falling Into Place’: Hamburg Review
German actress Aylin Tezel makes her directorial debut with this love story set between Skye and London
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‘The Rye Horn’: San Sebastian Review
Jaione Camborda’s second, elemental feature wins the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival
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‘Dance First’: San Sebastian Review
Gabriel Byrne is transformed into Samuel Beckett for James Marsh’s stylised look back at the Irish writer’s life
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‘Foe’: New York Review
Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal star in this dysopian sci-fi drama set in a world ravaged by climate change