Deborah Young - The Film Verdict

Born to Review: TFV Swims Against the Current

Posted by Deborah Young | Apr 2, 2024 | CANNES MARCHE' DU FILM, Festivals |

International films are emerging from a bleak winter of disregard, thanks to the power of professional reviews.

Black Tea

Posted by Deborah Young | Feb 22, 2024 | Featured, Berlinale 2024, Festivals |

The gap between African and Chinese culture proves easier to breach than the perspectives that separate a woman and a man in acclaimed director Abderrahmane Sissako’s ‘Black Tea’, a fascinating love story set in China but one that sadly gets lost in the telling.

Gloria!

Posted by Deborah Young | Feb 21, 2024 | Festivals, Berlinale 2024 |

A joyful feminist fantasy set in Venice in 1800, in which music unchains an orphanage full of talented girl musicians, ‘Gloria!’ will split audiences into two distinct camps.

Some Rain Must Fall

Posted by Deborah Young | Feb 20, 2024 | Featured, Berlinale 2024, Festivals |

A depressed Chinese woman tired of her unaffectionate family and middle class life heads towards a breakdown in ‘Some Rain Must Fall,’ the first feature by Qiu Yang, whose minimalist storytelling is full of atmosphere and foreboding.

Langue étrangère

Posted by Deborah Young | Feb 19, 2024 | Festivals, Berlinale 2024 |

In her first solo directing stint ‘Langue étrangère’, Camera d’Or winner Claire Burger cleverly evokes the fears and anxieties of two middle-class 17-year-old European girls about to inherit a world racked with violently diverging political opinions.

Author: Deborah Young

Born to Review: TFV Swims Against the Current

Black Tea

Gloria!

Some Rain Must Fall

Langue étrangère