A messy weekend following a life-changing diagnosis characterises Pauline Loquès’ Nino, a touching drama about trying to pull yourself together.
Nino Messily Navigates the Storm
Tag: Film
Wild Foxes Bobs and Weaves Through the Minefields of Toxic Masculinity
Valery Carnoy’s boxing drama Wild Foxes boasts a standout performance from Samuel Kircher as a teenage boy navigating the mindfields of masculinity.
Once Upon A Time in Gaza Lacks A Coherent Viewpoint
Un Certain Regard entry Once Upon a Time in Gaza is a topical film, yet unfortunately, it doesn’t feel like its helping anything.
Peak Everything. Love and Climate Change.
A depressed kennel owner falls in love with a phone technician in Quebecois comedy Peak Everything, the rare fest film with crossover appeal.
I Only Rest in the Storm. A Complicated Neo-Colonial Picture.
I Only Rest in the Storm is an epic exploration of the relationship between Africa and the West that fiendishly complicates stereotypical portrayals.
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.
Le Brutaliste
The construction of the Grande Arche de la Défense is recreated in loving detail in Stéphane Demoustier’s crowdpleasing, yet underwhelming The Great Arch.
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.
Her Will Be Done is Feverish, Ugly and Hard to Shake
With echoes of Wake in Fright and Carrie, Julia Kowalski’s Her Will Be Done is a provocative, satisfying body horror that lingers long in the memory.
The Girl in The Snow Cleverly Belies Its Classical Aesthetic
Multiple layers of ambiguity characterise Louise Hémon’s debut feature, a fascinating turn-of-the-century tale about the snowy road to enlightenment.