Loving Highsmith
Swiss director Eva Vitija gets up close and personal with much-filmed thriller author and queer icon Patricia Highsmith in her well-crafted documentary ‘Loving Highsmith’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 11, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Locarno, LOCARNO 2022 |
Swiss director Eva Vitija gets up close and personal with much-filmed thriller author and queer icon Patricia Highsmith in her well-crafted documentary ‘Loving Highsmith’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 10, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Locarno, LOCARNO 2022 |
Director Santiago Fillol revisits the brutal political climate of 1970s Argentina through the lens of cinema in his dry but elegant period thriller ‘Matadero’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 9, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Locarno, LOCARNO 2022 |
A troubled teenage girl finds love and liberation in the nightclubs of 1980s Paris in director Sylvie Verheyde’s slight but charming autobiographical retro-drama ‘Stella in Love’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 7, 2022 | Festivals, Locarno, LOCARNO 2022, Spotlight |
Debut director Thomas Hardiman’s off-beat single-shot murder mystery ‘Medusa Deluxe’ is a dazzling catwalk show of spiky comedy, fluid camerawork and fabulous hair.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 5, 2022 | Festivals, Locarno, LOCARNO 2022 |
A pair of eccentric bohemian sisters build a machine that can change the future in Irish director Andrew Legge’s flawed but admirably ambitious lo-fi sci-fi oddity ‘Lola’.
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