Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Locarno coverage. Dracula opens in theaters on October 29.
Radu Jude is one of the great film...
Writing about another great Locarno film a few days ago, I lamented the critical inclination to always bring up Éric Rohmer and Hong Sangsoo. Regardless, i...
Never underestimate the critical desire to cite Éric Rohmer––spend enough days at a film festival and you’ll start noticing illusions to the director’s wor...
What is Mektoub, My Love about? Eight years since the first movie’s release––and after more than eight hours of Abdellatif Kechiche’s magnum opus––it’s sti...
Long before they came to designate a state of hopeless confusion, the words “mare’s nest” once meant something more electrifying: the excitement for that which...
In Nine Behind, one of Sophy Romvari’s earliest shorts, a young woman is heard sobbing on the phone to her estranged grandfather: “I want to know my family...
We can admire those who (brilliantly) craft entire feature films on iPhones, but the choice to shoot a three-hour feature with a Sony Ericsson––a device which ...
After the fascinating Space Dogs and Dreaming Dogs, directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter are shifting their perspective beyond the canine world with their fo...
After years of directing shorts and collaborating with Jean-Luc Godard on his final films, Swiss director Fabrice Aragno will premiere his feature debut at the...
Finnish artist and filmmaker Anna Eriksson is returning to the Locarno Film Festival this year with her latest feature, E. Premiering in the Fuori Concorso sec...
