Stephen Dalton - The Film Verdict

Kung Fu Zohra

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 5, 2022 | Festivals, Rotterdam, Spotlight |

French director Mabrouk El Mechri’s screwball action comedy about domestic violence, Kung Fu Zohra is admirably audacious but misses the target.

Excess Will Save Us

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 2, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Rotterdam |

French debutante director Morgane Dziurla-Petit returns to her home village for the playful and poignant docu-fiction hybrid Excess Will Save Us.

I Get Knocked Down

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jan 31, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Rotterdam |

Retired pop star and former anarchist Dunstan Bruce tries to rekindle his youthful punk rage in the charmingly offbeat music documentary I Get Knocked Down.

Assault

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jan 29, 2022 | Festivals, Rotterdam |

Kazakh director Adilkhan Yerzhanov finds tragicomic humour in Assault, a bleakly stylish thriller about a snowbound high school under terrorist attack.

Please Baby Please

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jan 27, 2022 | Festivals, Rotterdam |

Andrea Riseborough, Harry Melling and Demi Moore celebrate the hidden queerness of vintage Hollywood in Amanda Kramer’s WTF retro-musical Please Baby Please.

Author: Stephen Dalton

Kung Fu Zohra

Excess Will Save Us

I Get Knocked Down

Assault

Please Baby Please