Florian Pochlatko’s How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World is a long and ungainly look at mental illness that never finds a way to work.
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Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
Different Perspectives
Tricia Tuttle’s Perspectives is a shiny new programme dedicated entirely to first feature films. We have the lowdown on whether they’re any good.
Snowgirls
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower is a forbidding and slow riff on Hans Christian Andersen with a movie star performance from Marion Cotillard.
Köln 75. Iconic Chaos.
Mala Emde shines as a chaotic music promoter who puts on Keith Jarrett’s iconic concert at the Cologne Philarmonic in Ido Fluk’s Köln 75.
Real Fwends. How Many of Us?
The natural ebbs and flows of a friendship floating apart are captured in deeply realistic realistic fashion in Sophie Somerville’s delightful debut.
Dressed in Blue. Trans Lives in Full View.
By letting trans women speak for themselves, the 1983 classic Dressed In Blue is an essential queer text, playing now in Berlinale Classics.
Before You Fade Away Into Nothing. Unhappy in its Own Way.
Before You Fade Away Into Nothing is a truly rare thing: an all-American slow cinema film, tackling grief in a unique and fascinating way.
Mickey 17 Dials It Past 11
Bong Joon-Ho’s Mickey 17 is a loud and brash cartoonish science-fiction that has very little to say underneath its deafening bluster.
That Summer in Paris. A Small Delight.
A 30-year-old woman’s jaunt to Paris yields all sorts of beautiful insights on the nuances of life in Valentine Cadic’s That Summer in Paris.
Deaf Goes Deep on the Isolation of Hearing Loss
The travails of being deaf in a hearing world are viscerally explored in Eva Libertad’s powerful new work — live from Panorama!