[Cannes Review] In the Shadow of Women
While fitting snugly in the overall cohesiveness of Philippe Garrel’s filmography, In the Shadow of Women nevertheless feels like a companion piece to its prede...
Giovanni Marchini Camia
[Cannes Review] Tale of Tales
Tale of Tales, Matteo Garrone’s first English-language film as well as his first featuring an international cast, is an adaptation of three of the 50 fairy tale...
[Cannes Review] Our Little Sister
Those who fault Hirokazu Kore-eda for retracing largely similar territory with each consecutive film will find their criticism corroborated by Our Little Sister...
[Berlin Review] 13 Minutes
On the 8th November 1939, two months after the start of World War II, the German carpenter Georg Elser (Christian Friedel) carried out an assassination attempt ...
[Berlin Review] Queen of Earth
Alex Ross Perry does not deal in likeable protagonists. The brother and sister from his 2011 breakthrough The Color Wheel and the titular hero of last year’s in...
[Berlin Review] 45 Years
Andrew Haigh’s third feature as a director, 45 Years, is an excellent companion piece to its 2011 predecessor, Weekend. The latter examined the inception of a p...
[Berlin Review] Eisenstein in Guanajuato
From today’s vantage it’s difficult to believe that in the 1980's Peter Greenaway counted as one of the hippest auteurs around. After bursting onto the scene in...
[Berlin Review] The Club
With his exceptional trilogy on the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship – Tony Manero (2008), Post Mortem (2010) and No (2012) –Chilean director Pablo Larraín proved ...
[Berlin Review] Life
A James Dean biopic told from the perspective of Dennis Stock, the photographer who shot a series of Dean’s most iconic photographs, seems like a perfect fit fo...
[Berlin Review] Knight of Cups
The most eagerly anticipated entry in this year’s Berlinale, Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, premiered tonight in the festival’s main competition. As expected...
