It’s hard to know what to say about this artful, meticulous, melodrama by Todd Haynes.
Continue readingMay December (2023)
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Birdeater (2023)
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This smart, funny, and scary exploration of toxic relationships was a delightful surprise.
Continue readingÀma Gloria (2023)
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Capturing the world of a six-year-old child with astounding authenticity, Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq shows us a time in our lives before we understand the larger world.
Continue readingIt’s Only Life After All (2023)
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My heart was full after spending two hours with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers a.k.a. the Indigo Girls.
Continue readingLate Night with the Devil (2023)
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This thoroughly enjoyable schlock horror game show pastiche is, as my MIFF buddy Not a Sexy Vampire aptly calls it, “the Don Lane show gone to hell.”
Continue readingHello Dankness (2022)
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The 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.
Continue readingPast Lives (2023)
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Celine Song’s debut feature is a quiet and lyrical ode to inyeon, the Korean term for “the miracle of being in the same room together at the same time.”
Continue readingMass (2021)
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What might you say if you came face to face with the parents of the child who killed your child?
Continue reading107 Mothers (Цензорка) (2021)
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This must be one of the most convincing ‘docufictions’ I have even seen. Peter Kerekes spent five years filming in a Ukrainian women’s prison and has crafted an austere and profound drama where the voices of the women are integral to the story.
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