Reviews

Dir: Aleksey Chupov, Natasha Merkulova | Cast: Yuriy Borisov, Timofey Tribuntsev, Aleksandr Yatsenko | USSR Drama 120' A muscular yet strangely poetic drama suffused with human emotion by Russian directing duo...

Dir: Bogdan George Petri | Cast: Ioana Bugarin, Emanuel Parvu, Cezar Antal, Valentin Popescu | Drama, 118' Bogdan George Petri follows his sweaty murder story Unindentified, with another discursive crime drama...

Dir/scr: Potsy Ponciroli. US. 2021. 99 mins. There are nods to Peckinpah in this spare but rather lacklustre western that eventually catches fire in a coruscating showdown after a series of...

Dir.: Ciro de Caro; Cast: Rosa Palasciano; Valerio Di Benedetto, Fabrizio Ciavoni, Cristian Di Santis, Mattheo Quinzi, Annalisa Lori; Italy 2021, 109 min. This slow-burning and sensitive drama explores the overwhelming...

Dir: Marco Martone | Cast: Toni Servillo Toni Servillo is the star turn in theatre director Mario Martone's resplendent portrait of Neopolitan comic theatre legend Eduardo Scarpetta, making its bow here...

Dir: Aditya Vikram Sengupta | Cast Sreelekha Mitra, Shayak Roy, Bratya Basu, Arindam Ghosh, Satrajit Sarkar, Anirban Chakrabarti | India, France, Norway – 129’ – 2021 – Bengali Aditya Vikram Sengupta's third feature...

Dir/Wri: Michel Franco | Cast: Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg | Thriller 83’ Neil Bennett is just starting to relax in a plush Mexican resort with his sister Alice and her...

Dir.: Jean-Pierre Melville; Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Monique Hennessy, Jean Desailly, Fabienne Dali, Michel Piccoli, Jacques De Leon, Rene Lefevre; France 1962, 108 min. Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973) is known mostly...

Dir.: Gabor Fabricius; Cast: Benjamin Fuchs, Kinscö Blénesi, Ildicó Bánsági, Andrea Ládanyi; Hungary 2021, 98 min. In Stalinist Hungary during the early 1980s a troubled punk musician is sent to a...