Reviews

Director: Kadri Kõusaar Cast: Lee Ingleby, Bille Neeve, Sofia Berg-Bohm, Tony Aitkin, Andrea Lowe, Lina Leandersson, 100min   Thriller   Estonia Kadri Kõusaar’s unsettling thriller draws you into its dark and morally complex web...

Director: Brett Morgan
 132 minutes (US) MUSICAL BIOPIC   Over 20 years after his death, what is the enduring appeal of Kurt Cobain? Does it speak of the anodyne, characterless musical landscape du...

Director: Volker Schlöndorff Writers: Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff | Günter Grass (novel) Cast: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennett, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski 144min   Drama   German with subtitles In 1979 Volker Schlöndorff’s The...

Dir.: Jerzy Stuhr Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, Maciej Stuhr, Sonia Bohosiewcz, Jasmina Polak, Violetta Arlak Poland 2014, 104 min. CITIZEN, a chronicle of Poland’s history since the end of WWII, is funny, absurd and...

Director: Simon Curtis   Writer: Alexi Kaye Campbell Cast: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Charles Dance, Tatiana Maslany, Allan Corduner, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons Helen Mirren plays the star turn here...

Dir: Janusz Morgenstern, Wri: Janusz Głowacki | Cast: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Andrzej Malec, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jan Himilsbach To Kill This Love is Janusz Morgerstern's best known film. Like many Polish directors of this...

Andre Simonoveisz spoke to Vanessa Lapa about her documentary on Heinrich Himmler. F: How did the Heinrich Himmler project first come about? V.L.: Before the film project, I knew no more than...

Dir.: Vanessa Lapa Documentary; Israel/Austria/Germany 2014, 96 min. At the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, the German born philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “banality of evil” to describe the defendant. The subject...

Dir.: Bennett Miller; Cast: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave; USA 2014, 135 min. This is the story of a very rich man in his fifties, who fell in...