Ireland - The Film Verdict

Fréwaka

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 9, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Locarno, Locarno 2024 |

Taboo histories of violence against women in Ireland are excavated in Aislinn Clarke’s chilling, over-the-top Irish-language folk horror.

Janet Planet

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 15, 2024 | Featured, Berlinale 2024, Festivals |

Celebrated stage dramatist Annie Baker paints childhood as a midsummer daydream full of tragicomic adult behaviour in her droll, charming film debut ‘Janet Planet’.

Cleaner

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 13, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023, Verdict Shorts |

A tentative friendship begins between a cleaner and the woman who employs her in Cleaner, a delicately wrought drama about relationships and their boundaries.

Tag: Ireland

Fréwaka

Janet Planet

Cleaner