Citizen Saint
A flesh-and-blood saint causes chaos for a superstitious mountain community in Georgian director Tinatin Kajrishvili’s darkly satirical, bleakly beautiful fable, ‘Citizen Saint’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 6, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2023 |
A flesh-and-blood saint causes chaos for a superstitious mountain community in Georgian director Tinatin Kajrishvili’s darkly satirical, bleakly beautiful fable, ‘Citizen Saint’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 5, 2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023, Featured, Festivals |
A lively and engaging rock-doc. ‘Scream of My Blood’ chronicles the riotous career of “gypsy punk” band Gogol Bordello, including singer Eugene Hütz’s family roots in war-torn Ukraine.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 4, 2023 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2023, Spotlight |
Death is not the end in Czech director Robert Hloz’s stylish and ambitious future-noir Euro-thriller debut ‘Restore Point’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jun 30, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Karlovy Vary 2023 |
Moroccan documentary maker Asmae El Moudir blends the personal with the political in her formally impressive, puppet-driven, prize-winning family memoir ‘The Mother of All Lies’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jun 30, 2023 | Cannes 2023, Festivals, Spotlight |
Harrison Ford’s fond farewell to the long-running tomb raider franchise, ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ balances formulaic blockbuster elements with soulful nostalgia and an audacious time-jumping plot.
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