Locarno Reviews – Page 4
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Reviews'Three Peaks': Toronto Review
Source: TIFF Three Peaks Dir/scr. Jan Zabeil. Ger-It, 2017, 94m. Like the picturesque allure of towering mountains from a distance, domestic bliss is a treacherous idyll in Three Peaks, the psychologically complex, emotionally compelling second feature from German filmmaker Jan Zabeil after his San Sebastian best new ...
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Reviews'3/4': Review
A father and his two children struggle to connect in Ilian Metev’s naturalistic drama
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Reviews'Mrs Fang': Locarno Review
Wang Bing’s Golden Leopard-winning documentary presents an intimate study of the final days of an elderly Chinese woman
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Reviews'Dragonfly Eyes': Locarno Review
Dir. Xu Bing. China, 2017, 79 mins. Celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bing turns his mind to cinema in Dragonfly Eyes, loading his 79-minute film with thoughts, sounds and images gleaned entirely from surveillance cameras and live streaming sites in China. He’s grafted a narrative onto the footage, ...
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Reviews'Lucky': Locarno Review
Actor John Carroll Lynch makes his directorial debut with 91 year-old Harry Dean Stanton shining in the title role
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Reviews'The Song Of Scorpions': Locarno Review
Anup Singh’s ambitious third feature stars Golshifteh Farahani and Irrfan Khan
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Reviews'Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?': Locarno Review
The director’s family history on the wrong side of racism is an intense, hypnotic experience
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Reviews'Iceman': Locarno Review
A Neolithic world is brought back to life in Felix Randau’s dialogue-free tale of Otzi’s survival
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Reviews'What Happened To Monday': Locarno Review
Noomi Rapace buckles up for seven roles in Tommy Wirkola’s B-movie blast
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Reviews'Mrs Hyde': Locarno Review
Isabelle Huppert is struck by a bolt of lightning in Serge Bozon’s reworking of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic.
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Reviews'Sparring': Locarno Review
Mathieu Kassovitz squares up to the role of an ageing boxer who will take any punishment to provide for his family
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Reviews'Wajib': Locarno Review
A family wedding in Palestine puts strain on a father-son relationship in this wry family drama
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Reviews'Tomorrow And Thereafter': Locarno Review
Noémie Lvovsky delves into her own past for a story about a nine-year old girl whose mother isn’t “all there”
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Reviews'Let The Corpses Tan': Locarno Review
Bank robbers and police clash on a deserted island in this edgy, excessive thriller
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Reviews'Lola Pater': Locarno Review
Fanny Ardant shines in Nadir Moknèche’s warm drama about a trangender parent
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Reviews'Winter Brothers': Locarno Review
Set in a mining community in Eastern Denmark, this debut from Hlynur Pálmason is intense yet uneven
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Reviews'Vincent And The End Of The World': Locarno Review
Dir: Christophe Van Rompaey. France/Belgium. 2016. 124 mins