Reviews

Endless Night | Longa Noite (2019) Locarno Film Festival 2019
Aug 15, 2019
Wri/Dir: Eloy Enciso | Celsa Araujo, Misha Bies Golas, Nuria Lestegas, Suso Meilan, Manuel Pumares | Gallego | 93' Historical Drama Eloy Enciso embarks on an ambitious historical narrative for his...
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Mariam (2019) ***
Aug 15, 2019
Wri/ Dir: Sharipa Urazbayeva | Drama 82' Sharipa Urazbayeva's directorial debut is a re-imagined drama based on reality and takes place in the windswept snowscapes of her homeland. Stunningly filmed and convincingly...
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Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019) ****
Aug 15, 2019
Dir.: Alexandre O. Philippe; Documentary with Diane O’Bannon, Roger Corman, Ben Mankiewicz, Carmen Scheifela-Giger, Tom Skeritt, Veronica Cartwright; USA 2019, 93 min.  After 78/52, a dissection of Hitchcock’s famous shower scene...
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Oroslan (2019) Locarno Film Festival 2019
Aug 14, 2019
Dir.: Matjaz Ivanisin; Cast: Bela Ropoa, Margit Gyecsek, Erzebet Ropos, Micka Ropos, Ferenc Rogan, Ilonka Braunstein; Slovenia/Czech Republic 2019, 72 min. Writer/director Matjaz Ivanisin follows his critically acclaimed documentary Playing Men...
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La Permission (1968) **** Locarno Film Festival 2019
Aug 14, 2019
Dir/Wri: Melvin Van Peebles | Cast: Nicole Berger, Harry Baird | US Drama 67' ,  Melvin Van Peebles made his cheerfully artful French-language debut with a grant. Notable because it was...
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The World Ends | O fim do Mundo (2019) **** Locarno Film Festival 2019
Aug 14, 2019
Dir: Basil da Cunha | Crime drama | Portugal 107' Basil da Cunha is back with a woozily haunting realist revenge drama of Lisbon low-lifes in the badass backwaters of Reboleira....
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Technoboss (2019) Locarno Film Festival 2019
Aug 13, 2019
Dir: Joao Nicolau | Miguel Lobo Antunes | Portugal/France | Drama 112mins Joao Nicolau's musical bittersweet tragedy could be described as the sentimental swan song of a technophobe - quite literally. It...
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Opus Zero (2019) **
Aug 13, 2019
Dir.: Daniel Graham; Cast: Willem Dafoe, Andres Almeida, Cassandra Cianherotti, Irene Azuela; Mexico/Germany 2017, 84 min. Despite its ravishing Mexican setting, Daniel Graham's first film is a tired, episodic and empty...
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Franz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1995) **** Locarno Film Festival | Black Light
Aug 12, 2019
Dir: Isaac Julien | Writers: Isaac Julien, Mark Nash | Doc, UK 70' Franz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask is one of the most important films about Martinique and racial identity, along...
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