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Film Review: ‘Beyond the Hills’
★★★★☆ Awarded the coveted Palme d’Or prize back in 2007 for the desperately melancholic, Bucharest-set 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, acclaimed Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu returns to our shores this week with Beyond the Hills (După dealuri, 2012), a slow-burning satire of groupthink and religious indoctrination. Jettisoning some of the ruthless realism of…
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DVD Review: ‘The Castle’
★★★☆☆ Cannily released by arthouse distributors Artificial Eye in the same week as the Austrian auteur’s 2012 Palme d’Or winner Amour, Michael Haneke’s made for TV Franz Kafka adaptation The Castle (Das Schloß, 1997) is not regularly cited in rundowns of the director’s very best work – more than likely due to its televisual origins.…