The pitfalls of lesbian parenting as well as the messy realities of modern-day relationships are expertly navigated in Critics’ Week film Love Letters.
Love Letters. Look Who’s Writing Too.
Tag: Critic’s Week
A Useful Ghost’s House of Haunted Hoovers
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s debut feature A Useful Ghost is a remarkably profound — and silly — reverie on love, loss and assimilation.
Kika’s Dominatrix Service
BDSM and domination is used as a metaphor for the human condition in Alexe Poukine’s Kika, a deeply heartfelt tale about overcoming grief.
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.
Baby Works His Way Out of a Corner
Marcelo Caetano’s Baby might combine reliable and clichéd tropes, but Caetano’s sex work study succeeds thanks to its keen observation of queer communities.
What we ask of a statue is that it doesn’t move. Prodding the Parthenon.
With alacrity and charm, Daphné Hérétakis’ short What we ask of a statue is that it doesn’t move takes aim at one of Greece’s most enduring national symbols.
Sauna Day. Intimate Masculinity on Display.
Sauna Day, Anna Hints follow-up to Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, trades female intimacy for male suppression, to eroticised and compelling results.
Capitalism Is a Locust
The twin spectres of China and capitalism haunt every frame of KEFF’s gangland debut Locust, with shades of Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day.
Vermin Has Spiders The Size of Buicks
Vermin is one of the downright nastiest yet compelling creature-features made in recent years, a true standout of the Venice Film Festival.
Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning. Mostly Winning.
Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning imagines the future of queer and intersex people in sport in a variety of spirited and thoughtful means.