If you like a documentary that is about giving the subjects agency in how their story is told, then Flathead is not for you.
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Toll (2023)
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Like Crossing, Toll looks at queerness through the eyes of the non-queer family members who alienate and marginalise them.
Continue readingGaucho Gaucho (2024)
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Directors Micheal Dweek and Gregory Kershaw take us into the sparse remote world of Argentine gauchos (and one gaucha).
Continue readingCidade; Campo (2024)
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Juliana Rojas likes to blend contemporary Brazilian social critique with the surreal and supernatural, as evidenced by her queer werewolf musical (Good Manners (2018)).
Continue readingSeptember Says (2024)
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First time director Ariane Labed almost makes this darkly gothic tale work but fumbles its tricksy reveal.
Continue readingDahomey (2024)
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The Holdovers (2023)
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Like tragic little rich boy Tully (Dominic Sessa), Alexander Payne traps us in a weirdly quaint version of 1970s white America with little contemporary insight.
Continue readingA Man (ある男) (2022)
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Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised/disappointed that a film with this title revolved primarily around the experiences of a group of men.
Continue readingMy Second Year in College (Sale Dovom Daneshkadeh Man) (2019)
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Rasoul Sadrameli creates an interesting exploration of gender and friendship in contemporary Iran.
Continue readingBad Behaviour (2023)
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I was intrigued to see Alice Englert’s first feature, particularly as it’s stars Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whishaw and, hopefully, the New Zealand people and landscape.
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