Carmen Gray - The Film Verdict

When the Phone Rang

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 16, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Sarajevo 2024 |

One last memory of a Yugoslavia that no longer exists becomes a site of obsessive return in Iva Radivojevic’s elegantly narrated reconstruction.

New Dawn Fades

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 15, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024 |

A sensitive mind struggles with esoteric encounters in the Istanbul gloom in Gurcan Keltek’s spectacularly atmospheric horror.

Moon

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 13, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024 |

Kurdwin Ayub’s sophomore feature about a mixed martial arts trainer on peculiar assignment to housebound sisters in Jordan offers sensationalist suspense but few layers of depth.

Transamazonia

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 12, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024 |

Acts of faith, plunder and resistance deep in the Amazon are the territory of a majestic and hallucinatory but heavy-handed anti-colonial thriller from Pia Marais.

Holy Electricity

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 11, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024 |

Tato Kotetishvili’s Georgian debut is a scrappily episodic and freewheeling, dry-humoured celebration of down-and-out margins brimming with eccentric personality.

Author: Carmen Gray

When the Phone Rang

New Dawn Fades

Moon

Transamazonia

Holy Electricity