Reviews

Each year Marseille’s International Film Festival is packed solid with the latest documentaries, a large number of them world premieres. Now recognised on the international festival scene as a breeding ground...

Director: Philippe Le Guay Writers: Fabrice Luchini, Philippe Le Guay Cast: Fabrice Luchini,  Lambert Wilson, Maya Sansa 104min  French with subtitles  Drama Fabrice Luchini has come to be associated with intelligent French drama and...

The Golden Dream (La Jaula de Oro) follows three young Guatemalan immigrants on their journey through Mexico to the US border. Juan is a macho, urban boy who believes in the...

Director: Steve Reeves Writer: Steve Reeves, Mike Oughton Cast: Maxine Peake, Blake Harrison, Elisa Losowski, Christine Bottomley, Sam Hoare 93min  UK thriller In this chilly urban thriller Maxine Peake plays a 'stuck-up, self-centred cow';...

DECONSTRUCTING HARRY (1997) this comedy construct, in which Allen also stars as a writer looking back over his career, has some nastily neurotic revelations that often feel disturbingly personal.  In...

Director/Writer: Peter Fudakowski Cast: Jack Laskey, Zhu Zhu, Leon Dai, Hsia Ching-Ting 103min   Romantic thriller    English and    with English subtitles Inspired by Joseph's Conrad's 1909 novella, SECRET SHARER sets sail full of...

Dir.: Diego Quemada-Diez Cast: Brandon Lopez, Rodolfo Dominguez, Karen Martinez Guatemala, Spain, Mexico 2013, 102 min. Diego Quemada-Diez has made an astonishing debut film: a poetic road movie, a wonderful character study of changing...

Dir.: Davi Pretto; Cast: Joao Carlos Castanha, Celina Castanha Brazil 2014, 99 min. Documentary  Portuguese with subtitles Davi Pretto's quirky and claustrophobic documentary about João Castanha, 50, who lives in Porte Alegre,...

Director: Tom Berninger Cast: Tom Berninger, Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, Scott Devendorf 75min  Musical Biopic   US An unexpected surprise is this quirky and endearing account of brotherly affection...