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Zhang Yimou ironically salutes the movies and their fervent audiences during China’s Cultural Revolution, in a stylistic pastiche that drags a little.
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America 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.
Read MoreThe 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’.
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