Reviews

    Dir: Patricia Mazuy | Cast: Arieh Worthalter, Achille Reggiani | French/Belgian thriller 114' Not since Gaspar Noe’s 2002 thriller Irreversible has a rape scene been so violent as pictured in this...

    Dir.: Carlos Conceicao; Cast: Joao Arrais, Anabela Moreira; Gustavo Sumpta, Leonor Silvera, Ule Balde, Meiriulo Mendes; Portugal/Angola/France; 120 min. Angolan writer/director Carlos Conceicao delves into the bitter Colonial history of his...

  Dir.: Lidia Duda; Documentary with Zosia, Oskar, Kinga; Poland 2022, 82 min. A specialist boarding school in Poland explores how blind and visually impaired the children gain strength and confidence from...

Dir: Ivo Marloh | Doc | UK | 90' The wild Mongolian horse was Genghis Khan's weapon of choice when he conquered the hostile wolf-infested steppes of the World's largest land-locked...

Dir: Michael Axelgaard | Cast: Emily Plumtree, Sam Stockman, Matt Stokoe, Jessica Ellerby, Simon Roberts | UK  2011 91mins Horror The Axelgaard/Holt team make their first feature off the back of their Short...

Director: Claude Miller | Cast: Audrey Tatou, Gilles Lellouche, Anais Demoustier, Stanley Weber, Catherine Arditi | France Drama 110min Claude Miller was a French director, writer and producer who honed his...

Dir: Charlene Bourgeois-Tacquet | Cast: Valerie Bruni-Tedeschi, Anais Demoustier, Denis Podalydes, Jean-Charles Clichet, Anaïs in Love is light, fluffy but real in its depiction of a young girl enjoying her Parisian...

Dir.: Perry Hanzell; Cast: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw, Ras Daniel Hartman Bobby Charlton, Basil Keene, Winston Stona; Jamaica 1972, 104 min. When Jamaican director/co-writer Perry Hanzell (1946-2006) came to...

The full programme for the 79th Venice Film Festival (August 31-September 10) has now been announced by festival president Roberto Cicutto and artistic director Alberto Barbera.   Julianne Moore heads up the...