Carmen Gray - The Film Verdict

Toxic

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 17, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno, Locarno 2024, Sarajevo |

Lithuanian teens pin hope on an exploitative modelling school as a way out of their dead-end town in Saule Bliuvaite’s acerbic, striking coming-of-ager.

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.

Author: Carmen Gray

Toxic

When the Phone Rang

New Dawn Fades

Moon

Transamazonia