Carmen Gray - The Film Verdict

Holy Week

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 19, 2024 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2024 |

Andrei Cohn’s stark and brutal historical drama on the cycle of bloodshed in nineteenth-century Romania is a resonant study of how hatred is spawned.

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.

Author: Carmen Gray

Holy Week

Toxic

When the Phone Rang

New Dawn Fades

Moon