Red Island
In equal parts fiercely amusing and roundly desolating, Robin Campillo’s ‘Red Island’, an offbeat look at the end of French colonialism in Madagascar, is a crowd-pleaser in San Sebastian’s Official Selection.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 28, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023 |
In equal parts fiercely amusing and roundly desolating, Robin Campillo’s ‘Red Island’, an offbeat look at the end of French colonialism in Madagascar, is a crowd-pleaser in San Sebastian’s Official Selection.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 27, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023 |
Celebrating the natural cycles of life in women’s ever-changing bodies, Jaione Camborda’s second feature ‘The Rye Horn’ is a moving period drama that touches on abortion laws in 1971 Spain.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 26, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023 |
Emmanuelle Devos plays the complicit wife of the famous lawyer and closet pedophile Daniel Auteuil in Joachim Lafosse’s slow-moving family drama ‘A Silence’.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 25, 2023 | Cine Verdict, Festivals, San Sebastian 2023 |
El deslumbrante e imaginativo cuento animado de la directora española Isabel Herguera ‘El sueño de la sultana’ sobre una artista itinerante está inspirado en la pensadora feminista bengalí Rokeya Hossain y su cuento de 1905 sobre Ladyland, un país gobernado por mujeres.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 25, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023, Spotlight |
Spanish director Isabel Herguera’s exhilarating and imaginative animated tale about a roving artist is sparked by real-life Bengali feminist thinker Rokeya Hossain and her 1905 story about Ladyland, a country run by women.
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