Maixabel
Award-winning Spanish filmmaker Icair Bollain chillingly dramatizes the real-life encounter between a strong-minded widow and the repentant Basque terrorists who murdered her husband.
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Benediction
Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 18, 2021 | Festivals, San Sebastian, Spotlight |
The life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon movingly expresses the traumas of war and love in one of writer-director Terence Davies’ finest creations.
Read MoreOne Second
Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 18, 2021 | San Sebastian |
Zhang Yimou ironically salutes the movies and their fervent audiences during China’s Cultural Revolution, in a stylistic pastiche that drags a little.
Read MoreAmerica Latina
Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 10, 2021 | Festivals |
Elio Germano plays a mild-mannered dentist who discovers a girl is tied up in his basement in Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo’s (‘Favolacce’) absurdist psychological thriller.
Read MoreThe Catholic School
Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 9, 2021 | Festivals |
Stefano Mordini’s unconvincing ensemble drama searches for the origins of evil that provoked the Circeo massacre of two girls in 1975 and rattled upper class Rome.
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