Deborah Young - The Film Verdict

The Locust

Posted by Deborah Young | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured |

Iranian filmmaker Faeze Azizkhani portrays the hazards of making a movie about yourself in a self-referential drama packed with anxiety and irony.

Rhino

Posted by Deborah Young | Mar 7, 2022 | Festivals, New images from Ukraine, Spotlight |

ORIGINALLY REVIEWED SEPT. 13, 2021 Ukrainian activist Oleh Sentsov directs a hard-boiled gangster tale set in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, whose over-the-top violence is starkly undermotivated.

Una Femmina – The Code of Silence

Posted by Deborah Young | Feb 18, 2022 | Berlin, CANNES MARCHE' DU FILM, Festivals |

A young woman learns her family is linked to the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate and other horrors in an authentically harrowing drama shot in Calabria.

Until Tomorrow

Posted by Deborah Young | Feb 17, 2022 | Berlin, Featured, Festivals |

The rapidly changing social mores in Iran are highlighted in the dilemma of a single mother and her baby, directed by Ali Asgari with thriller-like tension.

Leonora Addio

Posted by Deborah Young | Feb 15, 2022 | Berlin, Festivals, Spotlight |

On his first completely solo flight directing without his late brother, Paolo Taviani pays a stirring salute to Sicily’s great novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello.

Author: Deborah Young

The Locust

Rhino

Una Femmina – The Code of Silence

Until Tomorrow

Leonora Addio