Category: Karlovy Vary

“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

★★★★☆ When Bob Dylan released his thirtieth studio album in 1997, critics claimed that the ominous atmosphere created by producerContinue Reading