Day: 19 August 2019

• Locarno 2019: Instinct review

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  19 August 2019

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  John Bleasdale, Locarno

  ★★★☆☆ Fans of Game of Thrones will be used to seeing Carice van Houten as a sexually powerful witch whose actions frequently cross moral lines, but her new film in which she stars with Marwan Kenzari, last seen in Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin, is an altogether different affair. Written by Esther Gerritsen and Reijn, Instinct tells…

  

• Locarno 2019: The Girl with a Bracelet review

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  19 August 2019

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  John Bleasdale, Locarno

  ★★★☆☆ A young girl is accused of a terrible crime and her family must come to terms with how much they really know about her in Stéphane Demoustier’s sober courtroom drama The Girl with a Bracelet, which premiered at Locarno. A family day at the beach can end in any number of unpleasant ways, but…