Berlin 2015: ‘The Pearl Button’ review
★★★★☆ Arriving at the Berlinale with another probing examination into Chile’s harrowing past, The Pearl Button (2015) makes for a fitting diptych to Patricio...
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14 April 2023
Film Review: Three Colours Trilogy
★★★★★ Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours Trilogy stars Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy and Irene Jacob in three of the most revered pieces of European cinema ever made. Named after the colours of the French flag (Blue, White and Red), the films are loosely based on the three political ideals of the French Republic; Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
23 August 2022
Sarajevo 2022: Our festival highlights
The Sarajevo Film Festival has a history of resilience, so it was hardly surprising to see it come back stronger than ever after two years of Covid restrictions. Founded in 1995, the festival is now the leading industry event in south-east Europe, showcasing the very best films from across the Balkan peninsula.
22 October 2020
Film Review: Cinema Paradiso
★★★★☆ A major contributor to the reverential narrative of wistful cinema, Giuseppe Tornatore’s magnum opus Cinema Paradiso is an elegant distillation of the form’s...
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Film Review: The Club
★★★★☆ Eschewing the historical context of his previous work, The Club (2015) sees provocative Chilean director Pablo Larraín, follow up the Oscar-nominated No (2012)...
Berlin 2015: ‘Nasty Baby’ review
★★★★☆ An innocuous US comedy that unsuspectingly morphs into a twisted noir, Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby (2015) is a socially conscious thriller that confronts...
Berlin 2015: ‘Knight of Cups’ review
★★★☆☆ “You don’t want love. You want a love experience.” claims one of the characters in Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups (2015), almost as...
Berlin 2015: ‘Victoria’ review
★★★☆☆ There is no digital trickery or sleight of hand in Sebastian Schipper’s one-take wonder Victoria (2015). Ostensibly a contemporary Bonnie and Clyde with...
Berlin 2015: ‘Ixcanul’ review
★★★☆☆ Jayro Bustamante’s debut Ixcanul (2015) is a profoundly humanistic inquiry into the trafficking of Mayan children in North America. Focusing on the daily...
Berlin 2015: Our guide to this year’s lineup
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival opens this Thursday with Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s Nobody Wants the Night. Starring Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi, and...
Film Review: ‘Pelo Malo’
★★★☆☆ Winner of multiple awards on the 2013 festival circuit including the Golden Seashell in San Sebastian, Mariana Rondón’s Pelo Malo (2013) distorts your...
