Hong Sangsoo’s latest film, The Day She Returns, is even more minimalist than usual, using just a handful of scenes to create a spare poem of differences.
A Few Small Beers
Tag: Film
A Russian Winter’s Lost Generation
Patric Chiha’s A Russian Winter is a minor work, but a nonetheless rewarding one: capturing exiled Russian youth in a tragic holding pattern.
I Want To See You Truly Naked
Muriel d’Ansembourg’s taboo-breaking drama explores the way pornography can change who we are, in often finger-wagging ways.
Lust Confidently Finds Its Way Through the Darkness
Ralitza Petrova’s lust is a tale of sex addiction and childhood trauma that, despite its grimness from scene to scene, exerts a curiously optimistic pull.
Don’t Send In The Clowns. They’re Already Here.
A clown’s life is turned upside down when her husband and two kids die in the emotionally resonant Four Minus Three, playing in Panorama.
Prosecution Handsomely Builds Its Case
Faraz Shariat’s Prosecution carefully examines justice both within and without the complex, biased machinery of the German state.
The Wry Pleasures of Everything Else Is Noise
Nicolás Pereda’s minimalist chamberpiece Everything Else is Noise is at once a slyly pleasurable arthouse experience and a finely-attuned family comedy-drama.
Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest. Unmoored Between Tradition and Liberation.
Naval-gazing documentary Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest is a funny, lacerating look at being caught between two very different cultures.
Iván & Hadoum. Love on The Periphery.
Set in Almería, Panorama entry Iván & Hadoum shows the difficulties of love blooming in the hard ground of labour exploitation.
Home Can’t Find Where the Art Is
The well-meaning Yugo-Danish drama Home offers a nuanced portrait of migration and integration, but never really takes off dramatically.