Reviews Review: Disco Boy (2023) 15 Mar 202322 Mar 2023 I was in Italy recently and wanted to see Disco Boy on its opening weekend. I'd missed the Silver Bear winner for cinematography when it was screened at the Berlinale…
Reviews… Aftersun (2022): An Afterthought 8 Mar 20238 Mar 2023 I was complaining that we don't get flashy premieres for interesting movies a while back. Well, when I went to see Aftersun at the so called preview screening a couple…
Reviews Berlinale Review: Here (2023) 3 Mar 2023 The melting pot that is present day Europe should be an inspiration for more uplifting stories about the things that bind us as people. I would be hard pressed to…
Reviews Berlinale Review: Passages (2023) 1 Mar 20231 Mar 2023 Ira Sachs wasn't a director I had firmly positioned in my mind, even though I'd seen and liked a couple of his previous movies: Love is Strange (2014) and Little…
Reviews Berlinale Review: Sages-Femmes (2023) 27 Feb 202327 Feb 2023 The genre of medical movies is mostly populated with the struggles and romantic explorations of doctors and nurses, the two swathes of people we associate with it. Sages-femmes narrows that…
Reviews Berlinale Review: Între Revoluţii (2023) 23 Feb 202323 Feb 2023 As the title denotes, this movie by Vlad Petri is set between two revolutions - the one in Iran in 1979 and the one in Romania ten years later. Our…
Reviews Berlinale Review: Mammalia (2023) 20 Feb 202320 Feb 2023 It's enough to give the trailer for Mammalia a quick watch in order to get a sense of what an otherworldly experience it is going to be. This is Sebastian…
Reviews Taximetriști (2023) 27 Jan 2023 It was an eventful few months for fans of Romanian movies, with a bunch of releases that proved varied not only in genre, but also in quality. Taximetriști falls plum…
Reviews Capra cu trei iezi (2022) 10 Jan 202322 Mar 2023 This has to be the first Romanian (folk) horror movie I've ever seen and I'm glad to say that it stands as an equal to modern horror movies all around.…
Reviews Aftersun (2022): holding memories in film 14 Nov 202215 Nov 2022 Living in a country that's not on the beaten path of the mainstream means that my chances of witnessing flashy movie premieres of global hits is an unlikely occurrence. Not…
Reviews Heikos Welt (2021) 15 Jul 2022 This was one of those rare occurrences of going into the cinema and just watching a movie you know nothing about and that movie actually proving to be a heck…
Reviews R.M.N. (2022) 9 Jun 202219 Mar 2023 It's been half a decade since Cristian Mungiu's previous film, the excellent Bacalaureat/Graduation, and there's a bit of its thematic DNA in his most recent work. The movie goes beyond…
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