All articles by Lee Marshall – Page 3
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Reviews‘What Marielle Knows’ review: Stylish, sly German comedy starring Julia Jentsch
Sly laughs all round as a teenager gets the power to read her parents’ minds in Berlin Competition title
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Reviews‘The Longing’ review: Toshizo Fujiwara directs and stars in sweet Panorama drama
An Osaka pancake chef helps an ex-con out
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Reviews‘How To Be Normal’ review: Peppy debut from Austria tackles mental illness
Star Luisa-Celine Gaffron shines in Perspectives premiere
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Reviews‘The Ice Tower’ review: Marion Cotillard stars in Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Snow Queen re-take
Poised drama plays in Berlin’s Competition
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Reviews‘Punching The World’ review: A fresh take on German radicalisation
Constanze Klaue’s Perspectives title is set in a small East German town post-reunification
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Reviews‘No Beast. So Fierce.’ review: Richard III moves to modern Berlin, and becomes Rashida
Burhan Qurbani’s female-centric fourth feature plays as a Berlin Special screening
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2024: Lee Marshall
Lee Marshall joined Screen in 1996 as an Italy-based film critic. He also writes on travel, design and culture for a range of UK, US and Italian publications.
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Reviews‘Trains’: IDFA Review
IDFA top prize-winner is a timeless train trip through black-and-white archive footage
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Reviews‘Writing Hawa’: IDFA Review
IDFA breakout charts one Afghan mother’s quest to educate herself - just as the Taliban rolls into Kabul
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Reviews‘An American Pastoral’: IDFA Review
Timely documentary tracks small-town school board elections in Pennsylvania
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Reviews‘The Shadow Scholars’: IDFA Review
Steve McQueen-produced doc shines a light on Kenya’s academic ghostwriter-for-hire industry
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Reviews‘The Propagandist’: IDFA Review
Chilling portrait of Dutch filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Jan Teunissen
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Reviews‘A Want In Her’: IDFA Review
Affecting documentary sees Irish artist Myrid Carten turn her camera on her troubled mother
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Reviews‘The Shepherd And The Bear’: IDFA Review
Immersive documentary follows the controversial reintroduction of wild bears to the remote French Pyrenees
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Reviews‘About A Hero’: IDFA Review
IDFA opener is an uneven AI-generated hybrid murder mystery in the style of Werner Herzog
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Reviews’Marco’: San Sebastián Review
Eduard Fernandez grounds this Incredible true-life story of a fake Holocaust survivor that closes San Sebastian
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Reviews‘The Time It Takes’: Venice Review
Francesca Comencini’s autobiographical drama explores her relationship with her filmmaker father Luigi
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Reviews‘Stranger Eyes’: Venice Review
Singapore’s first film to compete at Venice is a closely-observed mystery about a child who has vanished
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Reviews‘Diva Futura’: Venice Review
Rich, lengthy biopic explores the life and work of Italian pornographer Riccardo Schicchi
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Reviews‘Happy Holidays’: Venice Review
Scandar Copti follows the Oscar-nominated Ajami with this compelling spliced drama