Festival reviews – Page 148
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‘Wings Over Everest’: Tokyo Review
An experienced mountain rescue team is tasked with recovering crucial documents from Everest’s notorious death zone
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‘Uncle’: Tokyo Review
Frelle Pettersen’s Tokyo Grand Prix winner is a sensitive, contemplative portrait of life in rural Denmark
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‘Sacrifice’: Tokyo Review
Mysterious events surround a former cult member in this brooding thriller from Taku Tsuboi
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‘Tezuka’s Barbara’: Tokyo Review
An author develops an obssession with a mysterious woman in this film based on an early-‘70s work by Osamu Tezuka
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‘Nevia’: Tokyo Review
An Italian teen dreams of a new life with the circus in Nunzia De Stefano’s autobiographical drama
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‘The Secret Diary Of A Mom To Be’: Tokyo Review
A reluctant mother-to-be struggles to cope with the changes she must make to her busy Hong Kong life
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‘A Beloved Wife’: Tokyo Review
An unhappy marriage is put under the microscope in Shin Adachi’s autobiographical drama
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‘Just 6.5’: Tokyo Review
Iranian police play a never-ending cat-and-mouse game with the country’s drug dealers in this gripping crime thriller
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‘Fanny Lye Deliver’d’: London Review
She has been a long time coming, but Fanny Lye certainly does deliver
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‘County Lines’: London Review
The causes and effects of the most recent UK crime blight are laid bare in Henry Blake’s debut
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‘Savage’: London Review
Toxic masculinity and its lethal consequences in a New Zealand street gang
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‘Earthquake Bird’: London Review
Alicia Vikander returns after ’Tomb Raider’ to play an expat in Tokyo for director Wash Westmoreland and Netflix
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‘Coup 53’: London Review
’A sharp-eyed history lesson that unfolds with the pace and fascination of thriller’
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‘Pink Wall’: London Review
Tom Cullen steps up to write and direct a love story told in annual chapters
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‘Walking With Shadows’: London Review
A wife discovers her husband is gay in this exploration of queer Nigeria
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‘Our Ladies’: London Review
Buckle up for Michael Caton-Jones’ raucous adaptation of ’The Sopranos’
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‘Nocturnal’: London Review
Nathalie Biancheri makes her fiction debut with a striking tale of an uneasy friendship between a young girl and an older handyman
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‘The Cave’: London Review
Feras Fayyad’s award-winning documentary follows a female doctor in an underground hospital in Damascus
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‘Make Up’: London Review
Claire Oakley’s arresting debut premieres in the LFF’s Sutherland competition.