Karlovy Vary

Strasbourg 1518

by Ben Nicholson | Jul 5, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Verdict Shorts

Jonathan Glazer’s lockdown short embraces the urge to dance, re-framing a 16th century madness into an infectious ode to perseverance in the pandemic era.

Borders of Love

by Ben Nicholson | Jul 4, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022, Spotlight

A couple decide to broaden their sexual horizons with increasingly complicated results in Tomasz Winski’s knotty and intimate examination of honesty within relationship dynamics.

A Room of My Own

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’.

The Uncle

by Ben Nicholson | Jul 4, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022

A family celebration in 1980s Yugoslavia turns out to be anything but in this unnerving chamber piece that peppers farcical notes into an otherwise stomach-churning thriller.

The Word

by Deborah Young | Jul 4, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022

A small-town notary and his unbending wife put honor and honesty first in an uplifting if under-dramatized story from the Czech Republic’s Communist past, directed by Beata Parkanova.

Pietà

by Ben Nicholson | Jul 3, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022

Baroque stylings and meticulous composition create a hermetically sealed world in Eduardo Casanova’s ornate tale of overbearing matriarchal control.

You Won’t Be Alone

by Deborah Young | Jul 3, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022

Noomi Rapace is among the moving female cast of Goran Stolevski’s Macedonian folk tale about blood-sucking, shape-shifting witches who offer body horror at its scariest, yet it’s also full of poetry, with a lot to say about women and life on Earth.