Another unreal, sick, shocking and tragic true crime documentary story comes to us, from where else but from America. “Girl in the Picture” by Skye Borgman begins with the mysterious death of a girl whose …
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THE SACRED SPIRIT (2021, ŠPA) – 6/10
Spaniard Chema Garcia Ibarra presented a bizarre combination of black comedy, thriller and sci-fi at the Locarno festival, and the plot of the film that won him a special award from the jury was set …
Continue readingTHE QUIET GIRL (2022, IRS) – 7.5/10
This coming-of-age drama, filmed (mostly) in Gaelic, i.e. the original Irish language, completely triumphed in the selection for the Irish film of the year. In addition to “An Cailin Ciuin” or “The Quiet Girl” being …
Continue readingNIGHT RAIDERS (2021, CAN) – 5/10
From Canada comes this rather weak post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller – a drama written by a local filmmaker of Indian origin, Danis Goulet. “Night Raiders” premiered in Berlin, then at the biggest Canadian festival in Toronto, …
Continue readingKRIGEN / A WAR (2015, DAN)
This war drama was another of the Danish films that deserved an Oscar nomination. “Krigen” or “War” is not a classic war film, although we follow the fate of the Danish squad during the mission …
Continue readingTHREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING (2022, USA)
Australian George Miller is best known for the “Mad Max” series, but this time he made a complete turn by filming a fairy-tale romantic fantasy that is a kind of variation on the theme of …
Continue readingPEREVAL DYATLOVA (2020, RUS) – 7/10
In the first days of February 1959, nine mountaineers died on the northern slopes of the Urals in today’s Russia under circumstances that are still unclear. What happened to the experienced mountaineers, students of the …
Continue readingLA MIF / THE FAM (2021, ŠVI) – 8/10
A completely unexpected film surprise comes to us from the French part of Switzerland. An emotional, poignant and moving drama about girls from a home for neglected children, which is also a kind of …
Continue readingBLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL (1964,BRA)
Glauber Rocha is still considered to be the most influential and important Brazilian filmmaker, the founder of the modernist Cinema Novo movement there, which, like in other parts of the world, was a certain response …
Continue readingA CITY OF SADNESS (1989, TVN)
Hsiao-hsien Hou’s historical drama is the first of three Taiwanese films to win the Golden Lion in Venice, and today “A City o Sadness” is considered one of the highlights not only of Hou’s work, …
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