Locarno Reviews – Page 3
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Reviews‘7500’: Locarno Review
Flawed but impressive, Patrick Vollrath’s debut is set entirely inside the cockpit of a hijacked plane
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Reviews‘Maternal’: Locarno Review
A home for unmarried mothers is the setting of documentarist Maura Delpero’s first fiction feature
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Reviews‘If Only’: Locarno Review
Locarno opens with a debut starring Riccardo Scamarcio and Alba Rohrwacher
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Reviews'Hotel By The River': Locarno Review
Source: Locarno Hotel By The River Dir/Scr Hong Sang-soo. South Korea. 2018. 96mins Hong Sang-soo weaves a typically delicate web of family ties, random connections and hurt feelings into Hotel By The River (Gangbyun Hotel). A wistful, slow-burner from the prolific director, it should attract extensive festival ...
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Reviews'M.': Locarno Review
A strong documentary of abuse and survival in a closed community in Israel
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Reviews'What Doesn't Kill Us': Locarno Review
German crowdpleaser by Sandra Nettelbeck premiered at Locarno’s Piazza Grande
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Reviews'A Land Imagined': Locarno Review
A detective searches for a missing migrant worker in Singapore
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Reviews‘Ray & Liz’: Locarno Review
Artist Richard Billingham’s debut feature is an autobiographical look at his difficult family life
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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