A couple of cinematic hours in a remote, Siberian village is never a bad thing. I still remember the exquisite Ága (2018), an intensely beautiful exploration of silence and subsistence that immersed you in a life that seems far removed from what we think of as Russian culture.
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An insubstantial musical bubble about the vagaries of love set in an 80s stage set shopping mall.
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Georgia Oakley crafts a decent debut feature that captures the challenges of being a lesbian in Thatcher’s Britain.
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I want to say nice things about Andrew Durham’s Fairyland because it gives us an overview of queer culture in San Francisco in the 70s to 90s, a pivotal time.
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Lesson one: don’t watch a 2 1/2 hour slow French film at 9:30 pm at night at the Comedy Theatre.
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Granaz Moussavi has followed up her 2009 hit My Tehran for Sale with an intimate look at street kids in Kabul.
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Archibald prize winning Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton has imbued her lush visuals into her first feature film about violence against women and childhood trauma.
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Having ‘the water inside’ might spell doom or freedom in this meditative Spanish drama.
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There is something inevitable about the trajectory of Ali’s life in Lofty Nathan’s sunbleached drama of hopelessness that foreshadows the start of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia in 2011.
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I find myself wanting to like South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo’s work. Maybe I’m choosing the wrong ones out of his huge filmography as they seem whimsically pedestrian and self-absorbed, albeit in a way that’s meant to be charming.
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