Category: Rory O’Connor

★★★★☆ In Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown, Juliette Binoche’s character Anne rides the Paris metro and is spat at by aContinue Reading

★★★★☆ At an early point in The Souvenir, the protagonist explains that filmmaking is, for her, a form of therapy.Continue Reading

★★★☆☆ Mr. Jones isn’t just middlebrow – it’s the middle of the middlebrow: core-brow; nucleus-brow. Agnieszka Holland’s lengthy but invariablyContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Angela Schanelec’s latest film I Was at Home, But opens on some reassuring farmyard animals. A dog chases aContinue Reading

★★★★☆ In Monos, a diverse group of hormonal teenage soldiers man an isolated outpost during an unseen war. Their stationContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ The seemingly unlikely tale of how Fatih Akin’s The Golden Glove got greenlit, funded and selected for competition atContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Hans Petter Moland is a peculiarity: a Norwegian born and based filmmaker of unmistakably American genre sensibilities. His 2014Continue Reading

The 69th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival kicks off this week (7-17 February) with Lone Scherfig’s The KindnessContinue Reading