Russian Film Festival 2012: ‘Me Too’ review
★★★☆☆ A metaphysical parable for the discontent felt by those under the ominous cloud of both social unrest and the crumbling European economy, Alexei...
★★★★☆ In Alex Garland’s Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media’s dehumanizing relationship with violence.
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a masterful work of intricate storytelling, complemented by a lovely score by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
★★★★★ Greek weird wave director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) hits his stride with his strangest yet most deeply satisfying comedy fable yet, Poor Things. This exhilarating mix of Fanny Hill and Frankenstein is adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name.
★★★☆☆ A metaphysical parable for the discontent felt by those under the ominous cloud of both social unrest and the crumbling European economy, Alexei...
★★☆☆☆ With lines as awkward as “Your milk was so laced with gin I could barely drink it”, the tone is quickly set for...
★★★★☆ An auteur of special effects, Ray Harryhausen’s fantastical monsters are the stuff of movie legend. Now the subject of filmmaker Gilles Penso’s latest...
★★★☆☆ Cast out onto the festival scrapheap following its divisive 2010 Cannes debut, Cristi Puiu’s three-hour Romanian drama Aurora (2010) makes its way to...
★★★★☆ Greek oddity Alps (Alpeis, 2011) is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to innovative director Yorgos Lanthimos’ critically acclaimed and Academy Award-nominated Dogtooth (2009). Much like...