An unrequited love story powers Dreams, the final installment in Dag Johan Haugerud’s powerful Sex Love trilogy, playing in Competition.
Dreams (Sex Love). Writing vs. Living
Tag: Competition
Never Trust Guys Called Homer
A trip to a trauma retreat turns increasingly nightmarish in Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s Honey Bunch, playing in Berlinale Special.
Flying on A Wire is Not Real Flying
Vivian Qu’s gritty crime story Girls on Wire is a grim tale about the inevitability of fate that is weighed down by clichéd and stilted storytelling.
Not Another A24 Movie
The A24 formula works to fine effect in Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, starring the excellent Rose Byrne.
The Utter Horror of What Marielle Knows
Dark horse black comedy What Marielle Knows is the funniest film in the Berlinale Competition so far. A Hollywood remake can’t be far away.
One For The Pure Cinema Heads
Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a loving and deeply satisfying riff on classic spy tropes with a true and abiding love of the genre.
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.
Hot Milk Loses It At The Beach
Lesbian desire and mother-daughter issues intermix on the beach in Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s debut feature Hot Milk. Playing in Competition.
Living The Land. Weddings and Funerals.
The rhythms of village life are perceptively captured in Huo Meng’s intimate epic Living the Land, which is handsomely made but holds the audience at a remove.
DOK Leipzig Day One: Disembodied Documentaries
From feminine rage to mysterious dancing to intimate animal representation to deconstructing a famous image, DOK Leipzig splits the body apart.