by
18/07/2019
Karlovy Vary 2019: Our festival highlights
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival returned to Bohemia this year with another feast of cinema from Europe and beyond.Continue Reading
For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival returned to Bohemia this year with another feast of cinema from Europe and beyond.Continue Reading
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” Radu Jude’s film claimed the top prize atContinue Reading
★★★★☆ Olmo Omerzu’s follow-up to the stinging satire of 2015’s Family Film is another tale of children left to theirContinue Reading
★★★☆☆ Unfolding entirely on a laptop screen, Timur Bekmambetov’s new thriller Profile seeks to explore the murky world of howContinue Reading
★★★★☆ Following 2015’s Aferim!, Radu Jude returns to the topic of historical Romanian anti-Semitism in his furious new satire “IContinue Reading
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival returned for its 52nd year from 30 June-8 July. The beautiful spa town onContinue Reading
★★★★☆ Georgian director Rati Oneli’s City of the Sun is in a constant dialogue with philosophical treatise and epic poetry,Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Ain’t Them Bodies Saints director David Lowery channels slow cinema maestros Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tsai Ming-liang in A GhostContinue Reading
★★★☆☆ Shimmering corn fields and the blazing midday sun may not seem like natural environs for spooky supernatural horror, butContinue Reading
★★★☆☆ “I don’t know where I’m going,” writes Ján Kollár in his diary. He’s recently been booked in for surgery,Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ For those with prior knowledge of his work, Petr Václav’s latest film We Are Never Alone may represent hisContinue Reading
★★★★☆ Don’t be fooled by the banal title – there’s a great deal of interest beneath the pastel hues andContinue Reading
★★★★☆ “Everyone says: ‘Less emotion, less emotion.’ How can anyone act without emotion?” So complains the eponymous veteran actress inContinue Reading
★★★☆☆ There’s a distinct whiff of Mike Leigh running through Waves, the fiction feature debut of Polish director Grzegorz Zariczny.Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture used clay figurines to represent the non-existent images of the Khmer Rouge’s reign inContinue Reading