Reviews

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) **** Bluray release
Sep 9, 2018
Dir.: Jean Renoir; Cast: Rene Lefevre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Nadia Sibirskaia; France 1936, 80 min. Jean Renoir’s The Crime of Monsieur Lange is often seen as a political film, supporting the...
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A Tramway in Jerusalem (2018) *** Venice Film Festival 2018
Sep 7, 2018
Dir: Amos Gitai | Drama | 90'  Israel is a complex nation of multiculturalism - and none better to convey this than author/ filmmaker Amos Gitai in his fraught and frustrating...
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Nice Girls Don’t Stay for Breakfast (2018) **** Venice Film Festival 2018
Sep 7, 2018
Dir: Bruce Weber | US Doc | 91' Suave screen idol Robert Mitchum comes across as a crooning hearth-throb in Bruce Weber's starry cinematic sashay that contains previously unseen interview footage...
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Phoenix (2018) ** Toronto Film Festival
Sep 7, 2018
Dir.: Camilla Strom Henriksen; Cast: Yiva Bjorkaas Thedin, Caspar Falck-Lovas, Maria Bonnevie, Sverrir Gudnason, Ellen Sandal, Renate Reinsve; Norway 2018, 86 min. First feature of writer/director Camilla Strom Henriksen's debut feature...
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Capri-Revolution (2018) ** Venice Film Festival 2018
Sep 7, 2018
Dir.: Mario Martone; Cast: Marianna Fontana, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Antonio Folletto, Maximilian Dirr; Italy/France 2018, 121 min. Mario Martione does his homeland a disservice with a turgid and distinctly un-revolutionary Golden...
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Shadow 2018) **** Venice Film Festival 2018
Sep 7, 2018
Dir: Zhang Yimou | Action Drama | China | 110’ Two-time winner of the Golden Lion at Venice for The Story Of Qiu Ju, and Not One Less, Chinese supremo Zhang...
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A Letter to a Friend in Gaza (2018) **** Venice Film Festival 2018
Sep 6, 2018
Dir.: Amos Gitai; Cast: Makram Khoury, Clara Khoury, Hilla Vidor, Amos Gitai, Amira Hass; Israel 2018, 34 min. As you prepare your breakfast, think of others (do not forget the pigeon’s...
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The Summer House (2018) Les Estivants | *** Venice Film Festival 2018
Sep 6, 2018
Dir: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. France/Italy. 2018. 127mins | Actor-director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s reworks familiar territory in her latest comedy drama where she plays a vulnerable woman obsessed with a feckless younger...
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The River (Ozen) *** Venice Film Festival 2018 | Orizzonti
Sep 5, 2018
Dir/scr: Emir Baigazin. Kaz-Pol-Nor. 2018. 108mins This spare and rhythmic final film in Kazakh auteur Emir Baigazin’s Asian trilogy serves as a simple but mesmerising metaphor for the dangers of the...
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