This daring portrait of the vaunted modernist artist Munch captures the spirit of the artist well by shaking up biopic formula.
Edvard Munch Everywhere. All At Once
Category: Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
Poetry and Parenting: Two Lithuanian Films at the Tallinn Film Festival 2022
France to the west, Russia to the east; Lithuania trying to do its thing in the middle. A survey of two Baltic premieres at the Tallinn Film Festival.
Death and Divorce: Two First Features from Tallinn Film Festival 2022
A couple of excellent first features from the Tallinn Film Festival show both physical and mental pain, and the different ways to reconcile the two.
Cottbus Film Festival Day Two: Polentag
A Polish-heavy second day at Cottbus Film Festival shows off both the accessibility and social relevance of their national cinema.
Cottbus Film Festival Day One: A Continent in Collapse
Day one of the Cottbus Film Festival expertly shows the major fault-lines running through the seams of Eastern European society.
Antalya Film Festival Days Six and Seven: The Epic Tides of History
A new film charting Italian life in the early 20th Century and the most epic widescreen experience possible round out Antalya 2022.
Antalya Film Festival Day Five: Queer Lives in Crisis
Two excellent queer-minded societal critiques had me wonder: perhaps the A in LGBTQA stands for Antalya.
Antalya Film Festival Day Four: The Future and the Past
While the past is seen as immutable and stuck-in-its-ways, the future is a kaleidoscopic, unknowable thing: live from Antalya Film Festival.
Antalya Film Festival Day Three: Mysterious Men in Strange Lands
A day filled with Turks and turkeys, day three of the Antalya Film Festival showed three different men navigating strange lands.
Antalya Film Festival Day Two: Animated Prisons and Stereoscopic Visions
Two stories of trapped women are told in completely different ways in a strong second day of the Antalya Film Festival.