Film Review: The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Becoming a fully functioning adult with a proper job and a life partner is messy. Joachim Trier’s romantic drama isContinue Reading
cinema for your deserted island
Becoming a fully functioning adult with a proper job and a life partner is messy. Joachim Trier’s romantic drama isContinue Reading
Laotian film The Long Walk from director Mattie Do offers a strange philosophical tale of time travel and guilt in a ruralContinue Reading
Premiering at the 2021 Berlinale and acquiring an armful of trophies at the German Film Awards, Dominik Graf’s version ofContinue Reading
Based on the memoirs of a young Danish poet whose life intertwined with that of author Karen Blixen in theContinue Reading
Billed as a “feature length dance film” but in reality more of an art installation, The Severing mines the deepest human emotionsContinue Reading
A success at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Brighton 4th is a tender, sad portrait of the illusion of immigration and theContinue Reading
Primarily known as a documentary film-maker, American director James Blue’s only feature film The Olive Trees of Justice was shot under remarkableContinue Reading
Japanese director Yasuzô Masumura’s 1966 film about the hopelessness of war, Red Angel, gets the Arrow Video Blu-Ray treatment – and it’sContinue Reading
With the lightness of a soufflé, Delicious pits the whims of the aristocracy against the determination of a master chef in 18th centuryContinue Reading
Marie gives us Top 10(ish) of 2021 Like many people I’m sure, my cinema-going in 2021 was severely curtailed (yetContinue Reading