Author: Deborah Young

A droll delight from Austria, whose wry performance by aging blues player Al Cook made it one of the most popular films in Berlin competition, ‘The Loneliest Man in Town’ once again pushes the documentary envelope in unexpected ways devised by filmmakers Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel.

While violent savagery simmers between two Kurdish clans who live in adjoining villages, director Emin Alper raises the tension from fear and suspicion to vicious messianic-style murder in ‘Salvation’.