Is this the best use of Ravel’s Bolero in a movie? You can just imagine the discordant crash of the ending.
Continue readingExit 8 (8番出口) (2025)
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Sham (でっちあげ) (2025)
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Cloud (2024)
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By the 14th or so day of a film festival after four films a day, it gets to a point where you are hoping your 9.30pm film will have a little bit of pace and drama and action to keep you awake.
Continue readingThe Things You Kill (2025)
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This is a tricksy, slightly surreal drama that may have had more impact on me if it wasn’t 9:30 pm and the fourth film of my day.
Continue readingIt Was Just an Accident (یک تصادف ساده)(2025)
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Trains (Pociagi)(2024)
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It Ends (2025)
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To Kill a Mongolian Horse (匹白馬的熱夢) (2024)
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Good Boy (2025)
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And the award for the best dog acting at the Melbourne International Film Festival goes to Indy who played Indy in Good Boy!
Continue readingAll I Had Was Nothingness (Je n’avais que le néant – Shoah par Lanzmann) (2025)
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A documentary about another documentary is an odd thing. This is not just any documentary though, it is about Shoah (1985), Claude Lanzmann’s 9 1/2 hour epic made over 12 years.
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