It’s hard to know how to appreciate films that are so much of their time. This film by William Klein, who is more often known as a fashion photographer, was made in the 60s as a satire of the fashion industry.
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This feels like a perfectly crafted film. As my friend Ariel said, not a single second is wasted. And at only 82 minutes, it shows how well you can tell a story without making it an epic.
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Seeing the Australian premiere of Paloma Schneideman’s first feature film meant the audience was keyed up for a good time, laughing at every joke.
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I swapped into this one at the last minute, not really knowing much about it but feeling that spending 70 minutes in Vietnam might be a nice way to spend a Wednesday afternoon.
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People die, glaciers die, here’s some more footage of my family. Perhaps if I’d been less tired, I might have sunk into Sara Dosa’s cyclical story of climate change and the inevitability of loss.
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I felt duty bound to see this film by Mahnaz Mohammadi, supporting the sisterhood by going to see a film that said from the outset that it was about a woman being tortured in an Iranian prison.
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This well balanced and nonjudgemental documentary captures a rare thing. Following a Syrian family precariously fleeing Turkey in 2015, the filmmakers follow 11 year-old Israa and her family over a period of 10 years.
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This will hit you in the feels if you are at all a fan of Mary Oliver‘s poetry and make you want to go out and buy one of her books if you are not.
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There is a warning at the start of this film that it contains references to child sexual abuse and so you know it is going to be potentially a tough watch.
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