Film - Journey Into Cinema

BDSM and domination is used as a metaphor for the human condition in Alexe Poukine’s Kika, a deeply heartfelt tale about overcoming grief.

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.

Multiple layers of ambiguity characterise Louise Hémon’s debut feature, a fascinating turn-of-the-century tale about the snowy road to enlightenment.

French dramedy Drifting Laurent is a slow and seemingly aimless film that provides oodles of charm in its depiction of an mid-season alpine resort.

A fine animation style is wasted by a deadeningly boring script in Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s surrealist eco-thriller Death Does Not Exist.

The very definition of a hangout movie, ACID opener L’Aventura explores the quotidian moments that most contemporary cinema often breezes by.

The Wedding Banquet is a broad remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 work that drains the rich cultural specificity of the subject matter into boring slop.

The highs and lows of die-hard football fan culture is lovingly surveyed in Ragnhild Ekner’s excellent documentary Ultras.

A witty, low-key riff on the intersection between love and espionage, Black Bag is one of the best spy films to come out in recent years.

A24’s broadest comedy yet, Death of a Unicorn feels woefully miscast, providing another eat-the-rich satire that has nothing interesting to say.