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‘Meat’: Thessaloniki Review
Dir: Dimitris Nakos. Greece. 2024. 104mins
Poisonous households could also be a story as previous as time, however author/director Dimitris Nakos spices his debut with...
‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’: Venice Review
Dir/scr: Duong Dieu Linh. Vietnam/Singapore/Indonesia/Philippines. 2024. 97mins.
Hardworking Hanoi-based marriage ceremony planner Tam (Le Tu Oanh) learns of her husband Thanh’s (Le Vu Lengthy) infidelity...
‘2073’: Venice Review
Dir: Asif Kapadia. UK. 2024. 82mins
Get up, world – you might be sleepwalking into the abyss. That’s the impassioned message behind Asif Kapadia’s newest characteristic,...
‘Familiar Touch’: Venice Review
Dir/scr: Sarah Friedland. US. 2024. 91mins
Ruth Goldman (Kathleen Chalfant) has been a spouse and mom, knowledgeable cook dinner and the creator of a number...
‘Harvest’: Venice Review
Dir: Athina Rachel Tsangari. UK/Germany/Greece/France/US. 2024. 133mins
The characters in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s visceral, earthy adaptation of Jim Crace’s Seventeenth-century set novel reside nearer than...
‘Queer’: Venice Review
Dir. Luca Guadagnino. Italy. 2024. 135mins
When ’Queer’ was written – and even when it was printed, 35 years later, nonetheless unfinished – that time...
‘Happyend’: Venice Review
Dir. Neo Sora. Japan/USA 2024. 113mins
Oddly languid for a movie about youth unrest, Happyend is a low-key Japanese drama about friendship, revolt and standing as much as the...
‘From Darkness To Light’: Venice Review
Dir/scr: Eric Friedler, Michael Lurie. US. 2024. 108mins
Documentaries about films-gone-spectacularly-awry abound — from Eleanor Coppola’s Hearts of Darkness to Jodorovsky’s Dune and Gilliam’s Misplaced...
‘Happy Holidays’: Venice Review
Dir/scr: Scandar Copti. Palestine/Germany/France/Italy. 2024. 124mins.
The day by day information cycle brings us limitless tales of inter-tribal battle. Typically the tribes are nation states,...
‘Paul & Paulette Take A Bath’: Venice Review
Dir/scr: Jethro Massey. UK. 2024. 109mins
As hinted at by its title, Paul & Paulette Take A Tub is a playful love story wherein its...