The Catholic School
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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The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 8, 2021 | CANNES MARCHE' DU FILM, Festivals |
Finnish filmmaker Teemu Nikki’s story about disability moves you for a long list of complicated reasons.
Read MoreCaptain 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’.
Read MoreReflection
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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