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…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #9 (2023) 3 Mar 20233 Mar 2023 This week, Berlinale recap! Here (2023): At just 82 minutes, the movie is strikingly short. Especially if you get into its mood, it will lull you before you even realize…
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 Review: Infinite Football (2018) 10 Mar 201822 Mar 2023 Corneliu Porumboiu's most recent work is a 'documentary-essay' about - well, the human condition. The director likes to focus on the question of how one can be truly free within…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #9 (2017) 6 Mar 2017 There was more than a bit of surprise during last week's Oscars proceedings, with the kind of surprise being more surprising than the surprise itself. After the right people came…
Reviews Ana, mon amour (2017): The Relationship Hive Mind 3 Mar 20173 Mar 2017 Netzer's follow-up to the excellent Child's Pose (2013) shares some elements with its precursor, but takes a different angle to the emotional roots and psychological ties of family life. A…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #6 (2017) 19 Feb 2017 Playing catch-up here, this is a short review of the Berlinale movies. Thursday The Wound (2017): All things considered, The Wound stands as a film that, at its best, conveys a…
Think Pieces Berlinale Day 4: Courage Against All Odds 14 Feb 201715 Feb 2017 To round off my Berlinale visit, I opted for an alternative to movies: a panel talk between jury president, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, jury member, American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and…
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