Latest festival reviews – Page 127
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Reviews‘Mr. Suzuki - A Man In God’s Country’: Tokyo Review
In a dystopian Japan, a single woman attempts to find a partner and avoid the persecution of society
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Reviews‘Come And Go’: Tokyo Review
Lim Kah Wai’s latest flm presents a textured mosaic of life in present-day Osaka
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Reviews‘The Old Town Girls’: Tokyo Review
Source: Tokyo International Film Festival ‘The Old Town Girls’
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Reviews‘Considering The Ends’: DOK Leipzig Review
A French shepherdess contemplates the lives - and deaths - of her herd of sheep
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Reviews‘Underdog’: Tokyo Review
Masaharu Take’s Tokyo opener is the epic portrait of a boxer trying to recapture his former glory
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Reviews‘Truth Or Consequences’: DOK Leipzig Review
Hannah Jayanti explores a New Mexico community in rhythmic stasis
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Reviews‘Tigers’: Busan Review
A rivetting look at the price of sporting fame from Sweden’s Ronnie Sandahl
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Reviews‘Roman’s Childhood’: DOK Leipzig Review
Documentary about a Lithuanian family in straitened circumstances is unexpectedly uplifting
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Reviews‘Avalon’: DOK Leipzig Review
An exploration of the director’s sexual boundaries forms the heart of this obsessively personal film from Thailand
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Reviews‘Vicenta’: DOK Leipzig Review
The story of an Argentinian mother’s quest for her disabled daughter is made all the more effective by Dario Doria’s Plasticene model work
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Reviews‘Downstream To Kinshasa’: DOK Leipzig Review (Cannes Label)
Unbowed survivors of a bloody conflict take to the road - and down the river Congo - to protest their case
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Reviews’The Annotated Field Guide Of Ulysses S. Grant': DOK Leipzig Review
Impressive, idiosyncratic documentary which finds an extra resonance in the current times
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Reviews‘Harami’: Busan Review
A young pickpocket develops a conscience after meeting the beautiful daughter of one of his victims
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Reviews‘Empty Body’: Busan Review
A philosophical sci-fi drama about a grieving mother whose dead son returns in an android body
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Reviews‘Yellow Cat’: Busan Review
A ‘Bonnie And Clyde’-style romance between a socially awkward fugitive and the scatty hooker he befriends
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Reviews’Josee, The Tiger And The Fish’: Busan Review (closing film)
A charming, unashamedly melodramatic anime about the bond between a marine biology student and a paraplegic
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Reviews‘Girls/Museum’: DOK Leipzig Review
Shelly Silver takes a walk through Leipzig’s modern museum in the company of 16 perceptive young women
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Reviews‘Children’: DOK Leipzig Review
Ada Uspiz’s camera dramatically demonstrates how children grow up all too quickly in Palestine