All Visions articles
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Reviews‘Looking For Horses’: Visions du Reel Review
A solitary fisherman and a documentary filmmaker connect on a remote island in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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ReviewsTo Die Like A Man (Morrer Como Um Homen)
Dir. João Pedro Rodrigues. Portugal-France. 2009. 133 mins.
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ReviewsThe Secret Of Moonacre
Dir: Gabor Csupo. UK. 2008. 103mins. Gabor Csupo’schildren’s fantasyabout a plucky and resourceful 13-year-old girl on a magical quest to thwart an encroaching disaster is undermined by a sluggish blend of humour, disengaged characters and a stagnant narrative line. The script - adapted from Elizabeth Goudge’s ...
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ReviewsUncertainty
Dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel. US. 2008. 101 mins Regular collaborators McGehee and Siegel have hit what is called in baseball a double-a compliment, that—with Uncertainty. In the past, their provocative films have veered toward the academic, as with the study of amnesia in the modern ...
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ReviewsKrabat
Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner. Germany. 2008. 120 mins. The beloved 1971 children’s book by Otfried Preussler finally reaches the screen in a live-action version courtesy of young German director Marco Kreuzpaintner - and the results are impressive. Set in an 18th century Europe ravaged by the plague, ...
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ReviewsThe Sky Crawlers
Dir: Mamoru Oshii. Japan. 2008. 122mins. Mamoru Oshii’s most meditative feature-length animation to date tells the story of a group of genetically modified eternally-young fighter aces in a world where war has become a company-sponsored reality game. Like the Peter-Pan ‘Kildren’ that it depicts, The Sky ...
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ReviewsMilk (Sut)
Dir: Semih Kaplanoglu. Turkey-France-Germany. 2008. 111mins. Painfully slow but at the same time a resonant, elegiac coming of age story, the second installment in Turkish arthouse director Semih Kaplanoglu’s Yusuf trilogy shows him to be something of a magic-realist Terence Davies. But with its overlong shots ...