Reviews

Dir: Josh Melrod | US | Drama | 82’ A simple back to nature tale but none the worse for that, what MAJOR ARCANA really needs is a shot in the...

Dir: Morgan Neville | US | Doc | 94' | With Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton, Al Gore, Robert F Kennedy.  In his latest documentary Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom) looks back...

Writer/Dir: Fridrikh Ermler (1898-1976) | Writer: Ekaterina Vinogradskiya | Drama | Russia | 96' A young man who lost his memory during WWI seems to regains it many years later in...

Dir.: Ali Soozandeh; Animation; Elmira Rafizadeh, Bilal Yasar, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Negar Mona Alizadeh, Arash Marandi; Austria/Germany, 2017, 96 min. First time director Ali Soozandeh shows us the seedy tightly-belted underbelly...

Dir: Valeria Sarmiento | Chile | Drama | 113' Valeria Sarmiento follows her Locarno curio La Telenovela Errante (2017) with a classically-styled lavishly-mounted 18th century drama that follows the petripatetic exploits...

    Dir.: Sebastian Marnier; Cast: Laurent Lafitte, Emmanuelle Bercot, Luana Bajrami, Victor Bonnel; France 2018, 103 min. Sebastian Marnier follows his debut Irreproachable with an impressive adaption of Christophe Dufosse’s novel of the...

Dir.: Darya Zhuk; Cast: Alina Nasibullina, Yuriy Borisov, Swetlana Anikey, Ivan Mulin, Ilya Kapanets; Belarus/USA/Germany/Russia 2018, 93 min. Darya Zhuk 1996-set feature debut shows how little Belarus has changed in the...

Dir: Bjorn Runge | Cast: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater | Drama Bjorn Runge (Happy End) and Jane Anderson’s screen adaptation certainly lacks the teeth of Meg Worlitzer’s acrimonious original...

Dir.: Giada Colagande; Cast: Giada Colagande, Willem defoe, Franco Battiato, Miarina Abramovic; Italy/USA 2016, 93 min. Director/co-writer/star Giada Colagande (Open My Heart) does away with a tangible narrative in this thoughtfully languorous...