Festival Reviews

Skin in Spring

Skin in Spring

by | Sep 27, 2024 | ,

Small in scale but big in its ambition to show how an ordinary woman reinvents herself by learning to express her desires, the Colombian film ‘Skin in Spring’ is observational fiction at its most delicate and intriguing

Hard Truths

Hard Truths

by | Sep 26, 2024 | , ,

Mike Leigh returns from a lengthy excursion shooting period films to the kind of chamber piece he excels in, in ‘Hard Truths’, a small story about family dysfunction magnified into high drama by Mariane Jean-Baptiste’s formidable lead performance as a wife and mother going over the edge.

Turn Me On

Turn Me On

by | Sep 25, 2024 | ,

Director Michael Tyburski’s charmingly offbeat dystopian sci-fi rom-com ‘Turn Me On’ takes place in a cult-like community where sex and love, joy and anger have been chemically erased.

Cuando las nubes esconden las sombras

Cuando las nubes esconden las sombras

by | Sep 25, 2024 | , ,

Usando los impactantes paisajes del lugar, su compleja historia e intrigante aislamiento, el director José Luis Torres Leiva lentamente desenreda las emociones largamente reprimidas de una citadina angustiada a través de inspiradores encuentros con un grupo de locales en Cuando las nubes cubren las sombras de José Luis Torres Leiva.

Bagger Drama

Bagger Drama

by | Sep 25, 2024 | ,

Piet Baumgartner excavates the unspoken truths of a dysfunctional family with his first fiction feature film ‘Bagger Drama’, screened in San Sebastián’s New Directors section.

Sujo

Sujo

by | Sep 24, 2024 | , ,

The killing of a Mexican cartel boss puts his 4-year-old son in danger in a powerful, often mythic evocation of life lived on the edge of death, Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s engrossing drama ‘Sujo’.

CineVerdict: Zafari

CineVerdict: Zafari

by | Sep 24, 2024 | , ,

Cuando la despensa está vacía, una familia de clase media en un país latinoamericano sin nombre primero pasa hambre y luego se vuelve salvaje en ‘Zafari’ la espeluznante fábula distópica de Mariana Rondón que hará que los espectadores no quieran cenar.

La virgen roja

La virgen roja

by | Sep 24, 2024 | , , ,

Un ensayo imaginativo y fascinante sobre el feminismo y la maternidad, ‘La virgen roja’ de Paula Ortiz presenta a una inolvidable Najwa Nimri como una madre infernal y dominante que ve a su brillante hija de 16 años como una escultura que ha creado para cambiar el mundo en la España de los años 30.

Querido Trópico

Querido Trópico

by | Sep 23, 2024 | , ,

Una historia conmovedora y divertida sobre dos mujeres solitarias que se conectan a través de la división de clases, con la actuación excepcional de Paulina Garcia como una matrona rica y mandona que se desliza hacia la demencia.

My Eternal Summer

My Eternal Summer

by | Sep 23, 2024 | ,

Danish director Sylvia Le Fanu makes a powerful debut in feature filmmaking with the loss-centric drama ‘My Eternal Summer’, screened in San Sebastián’s New Directors section.

Soy Nevenka

Soy Nevenka

by | Sep 23, 2024 | , , ,

Veinticuatro años después de la primera denuncia por acoso sexual a un político en España, Iciar Bollaín cuenta la historia en Soy Nevenka con sensibilidad y urgencia. Sir Isaac Newton dijo que su perspectiva era mejor que la de sus antecesores porque estaba parado en...

Zafari

Zafari

by | Sep 23, 2024 | ,

When the cupboard is bare, a middle-class family in an unnamed Latin American country first goes hungry and then feral in ‘Zafari’, Mariana Rondon’s chilling dystopian fable that will put audiences off their dinner.

The Red Virgin

The Red Virgin

by | Sep 22, 2024 | , ,

An imaginatively engrossing essay on feminism and motherhood, Paula Ortiz’s taken-from-history ‘The Red Virgin’ features an unforgettable Najwa Nimri as a stage mother out of hell, who sees her brilliant 16-year-old daughter as a sculpture she has created to change the world in 1930’s Spain.

The End

The End

by | Sep 22, 2024 | , ,

Acclaimed documentary director Joshua Oppenheimer makes his fiction feature debut with ‘The End’, an ungainly but wildly ambitious post-apocalypse musical co-starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Moses Ingram.

Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle

by | Sep 20, 2024 | ,

French director Audrey Diwan’s excruciatingly dull remake of Just Jaeckin’s 1970s soft-porn classic ‘Emmanuelle’ delivers fifty shades of joyless, witless, pointless, mostly sexless tedium.

Skin in Spring

Skin in Spring

by | Sep 27, 2024 | ,

Small in scale but big in its ambition to show how an ordinary woman reinvents herself by learning to express her desires, the Colombian film ‘Skin in Spring’ is observational fiction at its most delicate and intriguing

Hard Truths

Hard Truths

by | Sep 26, 2024 | , ,

Mike Leigh returns from a lengthy excursion shooting period films to the kind of chamber piece he excels in, in ‘Hard Truths’, a small story about family dysfunction magnified into high drama by Mariane Jean-Baptiste’s formidable lead performance as a wife and mother going over the edge.

Turn Me On

Turn Me On

by | Sep 25, 2024 | ,

Director Michael Tyburski’s charmingly offbeat dystopian sci-fi rom-com ‘Turn Me On’ takes place in a cult-like community where sex and love, joy and anger have been chemically erased.

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