Author: Ben Nicholson

Borders of Love

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jul 4, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022, Spotlight |

A couple decide to broaden their sexual horizons with increasingly complicated results in Tomasz Winski’s knotty and intimate examination of honesty within relationship dynamics.

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The Uncle

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jul 4, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022 |

A family celebration in 1980s Yugoslavia turns out to be anything but in this unnerving chamber piece that peppers farcical notes into an otherwise stomach-churning thriller.

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Pietà

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jul 3, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022 |

Baroque stylings and meticulous composition create a hermetically sealed world in Eduardo Casanova’s ornate tale of overbearing matriarchal control.

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The Night

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jul 3, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Verdict Shorts |

Tsai Ming-liang is a master of the meditative short and he’s on exemplary form again with this nocturnal moment of rest in a restless Hong Kong.

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And Then There Was Love…

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jul 2, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022 |

A woman seeks a fortune teller’s guidance about her ailing love life in this discursive but affecting portrait of generational trauma and self-love.

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