All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 17
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Reviews‘The Trouble With Being Born’: Berlin Review
Perplexing, confrontational AI-themed feature from Austria poses some troubling questions
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Reviews‘Night Shift’ (‘Police’): Berlin Review
Anne Fontaine’s drama boasts weighty performances from Omar Sy, Virginie Efira and Gregory Gadebois
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Reviews‘Irradiated’: Berlin Review
Rithy Panh experiments with the documentary form to present a stark exploration of the horrors of modern war
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Reviews‘DAU: Natasha’: Berlin Review
Russian experiment which can be an uncompromisingly confrontational watch
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Reviews‘A Common Crime’: Berlin Review
Argentine drama stars Elisa Carricajo as a woman whose mind shatters under the weight of collective guilt
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Reviews‘Shirley’: Berlin Review
Elisabeth Moss puts in a braruva performance as troubled real-life writer Shirley Jackson
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Reviews‘All The Dead Ones’: Berlin Review
As slavery is abolished in Brazil, three women struggle to adapt to life without a housemaid
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Reviews‘Gunda’: Berlin Review
Although a documentary, Viktor Kossakovsky’s extraordinary film is every bit as resonant as Bresson’s ’Balthazar’ or Bela Tarr’s ’Turin Horse’
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Reviews‘The Salt Of Tears’: Berlin Review
Philippe Garell’s intimate drama fields a revelatory performance from Oulaya Amamra
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Reviews‘Minamata’: Berlin Review
Johnny Depp is the real-life photographer who documented the chemical poisoning of a Japanese fishing village
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Reviews‘Uppercase Print’: Berlin Review
In one of his two works at this year’s Forum, Romania’s Radu Jude looks back on a case of state oppression
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Reviews‘Malmkrog’: Berlin Review
Berlin’s new section, Encounters, opens on a ’militantly cerebral’ note
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Reviews‘How To Be A Good Wife’: Review
Goofy farce set in a 1967 finishing school is a vehicle for Juliette Binoche’s comic talents
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2019: Jonathan Romney
A longtime contributor, Romney also writes for Film Comment, Sight & Sound and The Observer, and teaches at NFTS.
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Reviews‘Saint Maud’: Toronto Review
A live-in nurse believes she is on a divine mission from God in this powerfully individual debut from Rose Glass
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Reviews‘Waiting For The Barbarians’: Venice Review
Mark Rylance shines in this otherwise bloated adaptation of J.M.Coetzee’s novel