Stephen Dalton - The Film Verdict

A-ha: The Movie

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Mar 7, 2022 | Dublin, Featured, Festivals, Glasgow |

A career-spanning documentary on Norway’s most successful pop band, ‘A-ha: The Movie’ is an earnest but mostly absorbing study of fame, friendship and midlife angst.

The Quiet Girl

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 24, 2022 | Berlin, Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2024 |

A emotionally fragile schoolgirl spends a revelatory summer with foster parents in director Colm Bairéad’s haunting, prize-winning, Irish-language debut feature.

Berlinale 2022: The Verdict

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 19, 2022 | Festivals, The Festival Verdict |

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Taurus

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 19, 2022 | Berlin, Festivals, Spotlight |

Musician Colson Baker, aka Machine Gun Kelly, plays a drug-damaged pop star in director Tim Sutton’s ‘Taurus’, a stylishly sleazy but self-indulgent depiction of toxic fame.

Unrest

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 18, 2022 | Berlin, Featured, Festivals |

Cyril Schäublin’s Berlin prize-winner ‘Unrest’ is a playful, gently subversive, precision-tooled drama about anarchist watch-makers in 19th century Switzerland.

Author: Stephen Dalton

A-ha: The Movie

The Quiet Girl

Berlinale 2022: The Verdict

Taurus

Unrest