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Taboo histories of violence against women in Ireland are excavated in Aislinn Clarke’s chilling, over-the-top Irish-language folk horror.
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Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 9, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Locarno, Locarno 2024 |
Taboo histories of violence against women in Ireland are excavated in Aislinn Clarke’s chilling, over-the-top Irish-language folk horror.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Aug 9, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024 |
Ben Rivers revisits hermit Jake Williams in Scottish woodland for a sparse, mysterious and music-oriented doc on life off the grid in gathering crisis.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Aug 8, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024 |
Christoph Hochhäusler’s Brussels-set neo-noir about a female assassin sets up wild ideas about futuristic crime which a convoluted plot never quite delivers.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Aug 7, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024 |
Gianluca Jodice’s Locarno opener is a handsome but airless portrait of obsolescence, as Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette sit out their last months imprisoned in a Paris chateau.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Jul 4, 2024 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2024 |
Porcelain War is a beautifully crafted documentary on the creative resistance of Ukrainian citizens under Russian invasion, and the paradoxes of patriotism.
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