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.
Living The Land. Weddings and Funerals.
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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.
Weightless Goes in Search of Love Past
A man’s grief-induced amnesia provides excellent inspiration for a journey through the past in Sara Fgaier’s powerful debut Weightless.
Sean Baker Does It Again with Anora
Sean Baker continues his deeply humanist exploration of sex workers’ complex inner lives with the touching and charming Russian-American fairytale Anora.
The Substance Has Never Met a Real Woman
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance boasts impressive technical sound design and monster work but suffers from a lack of compelling female characters.
Megalopolis Invites You To The Future Of Cinema
Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited, soon-to-be-endlessly-debated, epic Megalopolis asks you to consider the power of art to change the course of time.
Pepe is Dead. Long Live Pepe.
Hippos become a metaphor for Colombia, the state of humanity and the world’s capacity for cruelty in Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias’s unclassifiable Pepe.
Foreign Language: Sex, Lies and Chocolate Mushrooms
As messy as its synopsis is understated, Claire Burger’s Foreign Language is a heady mix of teenage sexuality and muddled political engagement.
Architecton Insists Upon Itself
Architecton has some awe-inspiring visuals, but its let down by its distracting high frame rate and suspect choice of images.
Sterben Hits the Thin Line with Ease
Funnier than most out-and-out comedies, Sterben captures the messy absurdity of life in all its glory, despite, or perhaps, because of, the sad subject matter.