All articles by Jonathan Holland – Page 3
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Reviews‘The Other Son’: Review
Colombian drama is a quietly rich exploration of one family’s grief following the death of a teenage boy
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Reviews‘The Practice’: San Sebastian Review
A burnt-out yoga teacher searches for new enlightenment in this Chile-set wellness satire
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Reviews‘Un Amor’: San Sebastian Review
Isabel Coixet returns to Spain for this dark adaptation of Sara Mesa’s best-selling novel starring Laia Costa
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Reviews‘They Shot The Piano Player’: San Sebastian Review
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal return to South America and a bossa nova pianist who mysteriously disappeared in 1976
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Reviews‘Sultana’s Dream’: San Sebastian Review
Isabel Heguera’s enchanting animation springs off a 1905 Muslim feminist text
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Reviews‘Foremost By Night’: Venice Review
Well-intentioned Spanish drama about the forced abduction of infants by the Franco regime plays out in Venice Days
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Reviews‘An Inhabited Volcano’: Visions du Reel Review
Thoughtful documentary about the recent volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma
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Reviews‘Fauna’: Visions du Reel Review
A goat-herd and a high-tech research lab in rural Spain provoke this exploration of the connection between man, nature and science
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Reviews‘In The Company Of Women’: Malaga Review
The fight for abortion right in 1970s Spain is the focus of actress-director Silvia Munt’s solid feature
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Reviews‘The Punishment’: Malaga Review
A missing child is the catalyst for unravelling motherhood in Matias Bize’s taut single-take drama
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Reviews‘The Fishbowl’: Malaga Review
A woman striken by cancer returns to the island of her birth in this uneven Puerto Rican debut
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Reviews‘Sister & Sister’: Malaga Review
Teenage sisters try to track down their father in this charming debut from Panama
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Reviews‘Upon Entry’: Malaga Review
‘Very clever film-making’: would-be immigrants are locked in a room by US border guards in this claustrophobic debut from Spain
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Reviews‘Killing Crabs’: Malaga Review
A pre-tourist Tenerife comes back to life in this appealing 1990s period drama
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Reviews‘Sica’: Malaga Review
A young girl searches for her missing father in this impressive debut set on the stormy Galician coast
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Reviews‘The Enchanted’: Malaga Review
Laia Costa shines in this otherwise lacklustre drama set in the Spanish Pyrenees
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Reviews‘The Castle’: Berlin Review
A neglected castle in the Argentinian pampas is the setting for Martin Benchimol’s eccentric documentary
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Reviews‘Matria’: Berlin Review
Maria Vazquez plays a single mother in Galicia whose life is constantly on the edge of falling apart
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Reviews‘The Eternal Memory’: Sundance Review
Maite Alberdi follows up ‘The Mole Agent’ with this deeply moving story of a couple coping with Alzheimer’s disease
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Reviews‘La Mala Familia’: Rotterdam Review
Intense drama about group of immigrants in Madrid which blurs the line between fiction and reality