Film Review: C’est la Vie! (2017)
byThere is a sub-genre of comedy which audiences either love or hate, and it can be summed up succinctly as “awkward comedy”. You may…
Foreign
Film Review: Dr. Knock (2017)
byAlmost a century ago, highly influential French literary and theatrical figures Lous Jouvert and Jules Romains debuted the satirical play Knock ou le Triomphe…
Film Review: See You Up There (2017)
byIt’s hard to know what to feel when emerging from See You Up There, the ambitious new film from Albert Dupontel – writer, director,…
Film Review: What Will People Say (2017)
byIram 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)
by“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: Foxtrot (2017)
byThere are few films in recent memory which are as magnificently crafted as Israeli film Foxtrot. Skillfully directed and written by Samuel Maoz, the…
Film Review: In Times of Fading Light (2017)
byIn Times of Fading Light is a film about two things: a communist party member’s 90th birthday, and his once great party and political…
Film Review: On Body and Soul (2017)
byEndre (Géza Morcsányi) is a withdrawn man. He remembers the active life he used to live when he had two functioning arms and now,…
Film Review: Loveless (2017)
byAndrey Zvyagintsev, master of nihilism, focuses all his dark energies on his latest work Loveless. An existential drama about a lost boy, and in…
Film Review: 1945 (2017)
byIt should come as no surprise that Ferenc Török’s 1945 takes place in 1945, at a time of great tumult for Hungary. The Nazi…