Film Review: Mondocane
Orphans, an apocalyptic event and a society ruled by gang warfare – Mondocane is a near-future-set Italian film in which friendship andContinue Reading
Category: Marie O’Sullivan’s Film Reviews
Film Review: The Quiet Girl (2022)
A triumph for the Irish film industry. The Quiet Girl is a gentle gem of a film about childhood, family relationships, andContinue Reading
Film Review: Ahed’s Knee (2022)
A celebrated, if a little grumpy, filmmaker arrives in a small town to screen his latest film, and ends upContinue Reading
Film Review: Firebird (2022)
Based on the memoirs of the lead character, Firebird is a story of love and longing in, of all places, a SovietContinue Reading
Film Review: Anaïs in Love (2022) 
Anaïs in Love, a French romance from first-time feature director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, follows a spirited young woman in pursuit ofContinue Reading
Film Review: Hit the Road (2022)
Winner of the Best Film prize at last year’s London Film Festival, Iranian writer/director Panah Panahi’s first feature Hit the Road isContinue Reading
Film Review: The Great Movement (2022) 
A surreal mix of events which – on paper – make little sense, but which coalesce into a treatise onContinue Reading
Films not in the English language – have we jumped the one-inch barrier yet?
As we eagerly await Sunday’s Academy Awards, Marie reflects on this year’s crop of films not in the English languageContinue Reading
Film Review: Mothering Sunday (2022)
A gentle but deep story of the awakening of a young woman’s creativity in the period following World War 1, MotheringContinue Reading
The Generation of Evil – MANIFF 2022
Dark, intriguing and violent, this Lithuanian murder investigation sees the provincial elite haunted by secrets from their past when theContinue Reading