Film reviews and more
This year, for the very first time the Berlinale is offering a handpicked selection of films for special festival screenings online. This joint project with online digital platform Festival Scope is intended to reach Berlinale fans who are unable to […]
★★☆☆☆ In the midst of the First Indochina War in Vietnam, a young woman, Linh (Kate Nhung), arrives at a French colonial rubber plantation in search of work. The plantation owner, Captain Sebastien Laurent (Jean Michel Richaud) seems kindly, but […]
★★★★☆ A remastered re-release of Soviet film director and artist Sergei Parajanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates, courtesy of specialist distributors Second Sight, is an opportunity to rediscover a unique cinematic experience. Cinema has not treated poetry particularly well. Either we […]