Stephen Dalton - The Film Verdict

A Room of My Own

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 4, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022 |

A young Georgian woman struggles to overcome stifling sexism and emotional trauma in director Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze’s worthy but muted chamber drama ‘A Room of My Own’.

Horseplay

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 3, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022, Spotlight |

Argentinean director Marco Berger turns his queer eye on the straight guys in ‘Horseplay’, a darkly funny critique of homophobic machismo.

Fucking Bornholm

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 2, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022 |

Polish director Anna Kazejak chronicles scenes from a collapsing marriage in her darkly comic holiday-from-hell psychodrama ‘Fucking Bornholm’.

Mother

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jun 30, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Munich |

German writer-director Carolin Schmitz takes a journey from here to maternity in her fresh but slight docu-drama hybrid ‘Mother’.

It’s In Us All

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jun 29, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Munich |

A random tragedy exposes the dark heart of a rural Irish community in ‘It’s In Us All’, the absorbing debut feature from actor-director Antonia Campbell-Hughes.

Author: Stephen Dalton

A Room of My Own

Horseplay

Fucking Bornholm

Mother

It’s In Us All