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.
Don’t Send In The Clowns. They’re Already Here.
Tag: Film
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.
Freeze Frames
A broken fridge-freezer becomes a metaphor for the breakdown of a family — and perhaps society itself — in uneven comedy Complaint No. 713317.
Conrad & Crab – Idiotic Gems. A Charming Cosy Mystery.
Conrad & Crab – Idiotic Gems by Claude Schmitz is a cosy French mystery movie that scratched an itch I didn’t even know I had. Sequels please!
18 Holes to Paradise Keeps Things Under Par
The absurdities of the privileged in the face of incoming disaster is smartly dissected in João Nuno Pinto’s Tallinn entry 18 Holes to Paradise.
A Diamond on The Hudson
Craig Brewer’s Song Song Blue is a surprisingly powerful musical biopic that rests upon the remarkable easygoing charm of Kate Hudson.