Film Review: The Third Wife (2018)
The title of Ash Mayfair’s debut film, The Third Wife , evokes the dehumanising, commodified nature of life for its eponymous character. Her name…
Film Review: Fishbowl California (2018)
Fishbowl California is a tale of two very different lives intersecting at a time of mutual difficulty. Rodney (Steve Olson) is an unemployed manchild…
Film Review: Jumpman (2018)
Jumpman gets its title from the main activity around which the film is framed: a boy, Denis (Denis Vlasenko), who leaps in front of…
Film Review: What Will People Say (2017)
Iram Haq’s What Will People Say is a harrowingly personal film. Nisha (Maria Mozhdah) is a 16-year-old Norwegian who’s susceptible to the allures of…
Film Review: Back to Burgundy (2017)
“You like wine, then you make wine,” says Jean (Pio Marmaï) to his beleaguered sister, Juliette (Ana Girardot). She’s battling unruly grape pickers, who…
Film Review: 1945 (2017)
It should come as no surprise that Ferenc Török’s 1945 takes place in 1945, at a time of great tumult for Hungary. The Nazi…
Film Review: The Square (2017)
Christian (Claes Bang) is a top curator at a renowned contemporary art museum in Stockholm. He’s handsome, well-groomed, charming, intelligent and articulate. From this…
Film Review: Faces Places (2017)
On the face of it, filmmaker Agnès Varda and artist JR make an improbable team. Varda is an 89-year-old female director who initiated the…
Film Review: The Florida Project (2017)
For many of us, childhood is the most wonderful of times. It’s when our curiosity peaks, when our uninhibitedness leads us to forge countless…
Film Review: In this Corner of the World (2016)
Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has experienced so much success that, in the public mind, it has utterly co-opted the Japanese cinematic ‘anime’ landscape. When…