The Serpent’s Path
Festival favorite Kiyoshi Kurosawa remakes his own 1998 revenge thriller ‘The Serpent’s Path’ as a tasteful psychological horror film set in France, whose top-notch, mixed Franco-Japanese cast makes it worth watching.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 21, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, San Sebastian 2024 |
Festival favorite Kiyoshi Kurosawa remakes his own 1998 revenge thriller ‘The Serpent’s Path’ as a tasteful psychological horror film set in France, whose top-notch, mixed Franco-Japanese cast makes it worth watching.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 9, 2024 | Featured, Festivals |
The birth of Italian porn films in the 1980’s is told as a sentimental, gently humorous biopic about porn entrepreneur Riccardo Schicchi in ‘Diva Futura’, a well-written romp made to cash in on its airbrushed sketches of adult film stars Moana Pozzi, Cicciolina and Eva Henger.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 7, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Venice 2024 |
Taiwan-born and New York-based producer Alex C. Lo seems to be everywhere on the A-list festival circuit.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 5, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Venice 2024 |
Choosing a narrative style as austere and unforgiving as her OB-GYN heroine, rising Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili (‘Beginning’) plumbs the depths of female suffering and self-sacrifice in ‘April’, a festival film which, like its protag, is destined to be admired more than loved.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 3, 2024 | Festivals, Venice 2024 |
Strewn with beauty, sadness and food for thought, Rachel Tsangari’s gripping adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel ‘Harvest’ is an allegory on how modernity has rapidly destroyed our natural relationship with the world.
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