Perpetrator
Cult director Jennifer Reeder’s hallucinatory high-school horror thriller ‘Perpetrator’ puts a queer feminist spin on teen slasher conventions.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 18, 2023 | Berlin 2023, Festivals |
Cult director Jennifer Reeder’s hallucinatory high-school horror thriller ‘Perpetrator’ puts a queer feminist spin on teen slasher conventions.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 17, 2023 | Berlin 2023, Featured, Festivals |
Director Emily Atef’s Berlin world premiere about a teenage girl’s forbidden love for an abusive older man, ‘Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything’ is beautifully filmed but fifty shades of boring.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 17, 2023 | Berlin 2023, Featured, Festivals |
Prize-winning Hungarian director duo Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó foresee a bleak future for humankind in their visually striking debut feature ‘White Plastic Sky’, an animated eco-disaster movie with a lyrical fairy-tale edge.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 16, 2023 | Berlin 2023, Festivals, Spotlight |
Opening the Berlin film festival, Rebecca Miller’s quirky New York rom-com ‘She Came to Me’ feels creaky and clumsy in places, but is saved by its fine cast and off-beat charm.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 6, 2023 | Festivals, Rotterdam, Rotterdam 2023, The Festival Verdict |
As it finally returned from Covid-19 limbo under new artistic director Vanja Kaludjercic, the Dutch film festival reaffirmed its core mission to promote fresh, socially conscious, culturally rich cinema.
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