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
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.