This is my first Radu Jude and his first film set in France. I have it on good authority that it is perhaps significantly shorter than some of his other films and maybe not quite so anarchic.
Continue readingDiary of a Chambermaid (2026)
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I Want Your Sex (2026)
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This is a mid-MIFF panacea. Gregg Araki switches the gender roles of an abusive workplace relationship and manages to provoke thought and also delight in its cheeky absurdity.
Continue readingLost Land (Harà Watan) (2025)
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I am finding two themes at this year‘s Melbourne Film Festival – people dislocated from their land and people abusing the power they have been given.
Continue readingSweet Milk Lake (2026)
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Okay, I only went to see this because I know one of the ‘background talent’ – that is the term director, writer, producer and star Harvey Zielinski used in his introduction to the film.
Continue readingBarbara Forever (2026)
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My MIFF BFF Ariel said I had to see this film as Barbara Hammer is the most important lesbian filmmaker ever. I’m glad I did.
Continue readingMinotaur (Минотавр) (2026)
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Yesterday I watched the film that this is a remake of – Chabrol’s The Unfaithful Wife. I suspect it kept me intellectually rather than emotionally engaged with the story.
Continue readingThe Unfaithful Wife (La Femme Infidèle)(1969)
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Strawberries (La Más Dulce) (2026)
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This seems to be a theme in the films that I am watching at the Melbourne Film Festival that when people have power they will abuse it, and by people I mean men.
Continue readingYellow Letters (Gelbe Briefe) (2026)
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This hooked me from the moment it showed a dramatic title card that made it clear that it was being filmed in Berlin but we should consider this was Ankara in Turkey.
Continue reading(Not Only Fred Dagg) But Also John Clarke (2025)
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You can’t really go wrong with a biography about a man who was not only a really decent bloke but also genuinely funny.
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