The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
Finnish filmmaker Teemu Nikki’s story about disability moves you for a long list of complicated reasons.
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Captain Volkonogov Escaped
Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 8, 2021 | Featured |
In a vividly dystopic 1938 Leningrad under Stalin’s Great Purge, a young NKVD torturer tries to save his soul, in co-directors Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov’s high-energy parable ‘Captain Volkonogov Escaped’.
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Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 6, 2021 | Festivals, New images from Ukraine, Spotlight |
ORIGINALLY REVIEWED SEPT. 7, 2021 Ukrainian filmmaker Valentyn Vasyanovych follows up his Venice Horizons-winning ‘Atlantis’ with ‘Reflection’ (‘Vidblysk’), a perturbing true horror tale of his country’s war with Russia.
Read MoreMona Lisa and the Blood Moon
Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 5, 2021 | Festivals |
A psychotic girl with lethal powers walks anywhere she pleases at night in Ana Lily Amirpour’s occasionally amusing but mostly treadless fantasy, ‘Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon.’
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Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 5, 2021 | Featured |
The controversy stirred up by Michel Franco’s previous film ‘New Order’ will be partly placated and partly reignited in ‘Sundown’, the story of English tourists (Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg) in Mexico.
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