Deborah Young - The Film Verdict

The Word

Posted by Deborah Young | Jul 4, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022 |

A small-town notary and his unbending wife put honor and honesty first in an uplifting if under-dramatized story from the Czech Republic’s Communist past, directed by Beata Parkanova.

You Won’t Be Alone

Posted by Deborah Young | Jul 3, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022 |

Noomi Rapace is among the moving female cast of Goran Stolevski’s Macedonian folk tale about blood-sucking, shape-shifting witches who offer body horror at its scariest, yet it’s also full of poetry, with a lot to say about women and life on Earth.

Vesper

Posted by Deborah Young | Jul 2, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022, Spotlight |

Engrossing and full of credible Euro SFX, the Lithuanian-French sci fi fantasy featuring Raffiella Chapman as a 13-year-old, self-taught scientist looking for a way out of a socially and environmentally sick world, seems targeted at imaginative YA audiences.

Butterfly Vision

Posted by Deborah Young | Jun 29, 2022 | Festivals, Munich, Spotlight |

Maksym Nakonechnyi’s carefully calibrated drama about a young Ukrainian woman soldier who returns home in a prisoner exchange, tortured and pregnant, projects a more human, less heroic view of the Ukraine-Russia war while it affirms a woman’s right to choice vis-à-vis maternity.

Paloma

Posted by Deborah Young | Jun 26, 2022 | Festivals, Munich |

Actress Kika Sena takes director Marcelo Gomes’s story of a young trans woman to another level as Paloma, a romantic mother and farm worker who dreams of a formal church wedding,

Author: Deborah Young

The Word

You Won’t Be Alone

Vesper

Butterfly Vision

Paloma