Reviews

First Stripes | Premieres Armes * * * (2018) | Berlinale 2018
Feb 20, 2018
Dir.: Jean-Francois Caissy; Documentary; Canada 208, 106 min. After visiting a care home for the elderly (La Belle Visite), Canadian documentarian Jean-Francois Caissy turns his camera on those starting out in...
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Black 47 * (2018) Berlinale 2018
Feb 20, 2018
Dir: Lance Daly | Cast: Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Barry Keoghan, Freddie Fox | Ireland | Drama Lance Daly’s dreary historical revenge drama revisits the peak of Ireland’s potato...
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The Real Estate (2018)**** | Berlinale 2018
Feb 20, 2018
xDir: Mans Mansson | Writer: Axel Petersen | Cast: Léonore Ekstrand, Christer Levin, Christian Saldert | Drama | Sweden | 88' There’s no denying the similarities between the Grenfell tragedy and...
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The Prayer * * * (2018) | Berlinale 2018
Feb 20, 2018
Dir: Cedric Kahn | Fanny Burdino | Cast: Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemuhl, Hanna Schygulla | Drama | France | 107' Best known for his 2004 drama Red Lights, based...
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U – July 22 (2018)* * * | Berlinale 2018
Feb 20, 2018
Dir: Erik Poppe | Cast: Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, Brede Fristad | Thriller | 90' | Norway U 22 JULY seems a rather dismissive title for a film about the tragedy...
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The Silk and the Flame (2018)* * * | Berlinale 2018
Feb 20, 2018
Dir.: Jordan Schiele; Documentary with Yao Shuo, Fu Qin, Ma Qin; USA 2018, 87 min. Shot in moody black and white, Jordan Schiele’s documentary sees the future colliding heartbreakingly with the...
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The Cranes Are Flying | Letjat schurawli (1957) Berlinale Classics 2018
Feb 20, 2018
Dir.: Mikhail Kalatozov; Cast: Tatjana Samoylava, Aleksey Batalov, Vasily Merkuryev, Aleksandr Shvorin; USSR 1957, 95 min. Mikhail Kalatosov (1903-1973) led Soviet cinema back to the lyricism of Pudovkin and Eisenstein, and...
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Native (2017) * * *
Feb 19, 2018
Dir.: Daniel Fitzsimmons; Cast: Rupert Graves, Ellie Kendrick, Leanne Best. Joe Macaulay; UK 2016, 88 min. Daniel Fitzsimmons’ low budget, minimalist Sci-Fi debut is not so much a futuristic undertaking, more...
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Teatro de Guerra (2018) * * * | Berlinale 2018 Forum
Feb 19, 2018
Dir/Writer: Lola Arias | Doc | Argentina, Spain 2018 The Falklands War (1982-84)  took the lives of 655 Argentinian and 255 British soldiers. It ended in Argentina’s military defeat and in...
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