Author: Stephen Dalton

Lynch/Oz

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 5, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022, Spotlight, Tribeca |

Director Alexandre Philippe’s undisciplined but insightful documentary ‘Lynch/Oz’ explores the influence of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ on David Lynch’s surreal cinematic universe.

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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’.

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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.

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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’.

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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’.

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