Amat Escalante’s Lost in the Night feels like an amalgam of Mexican films I have seen over the past few years.
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Goodbye Julia (2023)
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Mohamed Kordofani (in an accomplished debut feature) teaches us about the political and social issues in Sudan in the early years of the Millennium through the eyes of two women on opposite sides of the conflict.
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Set predominantly within an apartment, Bong Joon-ho protege Jason Yu’s ‘not really a horror’ hits the right balance between creepiness and drama.
Continue readingDeep Sea (Shen Hai) (2023)
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BlackBerry (2023)
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I lived through the rise and fall of BlackBerry but, not being an early adopter, it barely touched my life.
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Georgia Oakley crafts a decent debut feature that captures the challenges of being a lesbian in Thatcher’s Britain.
Continue readingHello Dankness (2022)
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Time Bomb Y2K (2022)
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Tommy Guns (Nação Valente) (2023)
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Destined to confound, this sometimes surreal drama (with a touch of horror) sits in an uncomfortable space between metaphor and realism.
Continue readingThe Carnival (2023)
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Isabel Darling’s The Carnival reminded me of a particular ilk of great Australian documentary storytelling, like Maya Newell’s Gayby Baby (2015) and In My Blood it Runs (2019) and Justine Moyle’s Tall Poppy (2021). The storytellers find a subject or a family who seem absolutely ordinary and build a rapport that allows them to tell the story of how they are extraordinary.
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