While Big Little Things is based upon a well-worn queer premise, the execution gives us just enough complexity to stick with it.
Tell Me Things. Tell Me Big Little Things.
Tag: Orizzonti
The City of the Living Exhumes a Shocking Roman Death
Subverting the usual expectations of true crime, The City of the Living is noticeable for the amount it focusses on the victim of a notorious Roman murder.
Hats Off to Diane
Un détour par Diane by Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni expertly blurs the boundaries between one woman’s lived experience and another’s emotional life.
An Eerie Maternal Bond, Under a Volcano’s Shadow
Borrowing Reygadas’ DOP, Ana Cristina Barragán’s taboo-breaking film The Ivy doesn’t satisfy, even if it keeps us curious.
Chasing Pavements
Pavements is a biopic, musical and exhibition, with Alex Ross Perry applying the idiosyncratic spirit of the 90s band to novel forms of cinematic expression.
Familiar Touch Depicts Dementia with Disarming Discernment
Sarah Friedland’s potent debut takes time and care to depict the ins and outs of living with dementia, to powerful results. Live from Venice Film Festival.
The Imhumane Perils of a Quiet Life
The dehumanisation of seeking asylum is piercingly explored in Alexandros Avranas’ horror-but-not-horror Quiet Life. Live from Venice Film Festival!
Paradise is Burning. Exquisite Teenage Yearning.
The careers of three excellent actresses are launched in Mika Gustafson’s sensitive ode to the travails and beauty of youth — live from Venice Film Festival.
For Night Will Come. The Vampire Genre (Partially) Undone.
The perils of being a vampire in a regular-old world are subtly investigated in For Night Will Come — beating away clichés before eventually succumbing to them.
Behind The Mountains. Dull Magic Thriller-isms
Behind the Mountains mixes thriller themes with the supernatural genre, to mixed, often underwhelming effect — live from Venice Film Festival.