Venice review: Tria (2022)
Giulia Grandinetti’s ‘Tria’ presents itself as a missing link between Kusturica’s blend of magic realism and the dystopian side of the Greek Weird Wave
Giulia Grandinetti’s ‘Tria’ presents itself as a missing link between Kusturica’s blend of magic realism and the dystopian side of the Greek Weird Wave
Love, loss and grieving have rarely been so painful as in Balázs Turai’s ‘Amok’.
…with a story that reveals itself slowly and never to the full, the actors have a complex task of dosing the emotions of their characters…
‘Microbiome’ could be interpreted as the short- and documentary extension to the Greek “weird wave” present in the fiction features that also tend to be a bit scientific and more than a bit anthropological (…)
If it was not official after ‘Summer Fruits’ (2019), ‘White Christmas’ and ‘Nine Months’ (both from 2020), now it became clear that Josip Lukić’s own family-themed documentary phase (2018 ‘Momsy’ and 2019 ‘The Rex Will Sail In’) is over
A joy for one person can be a pain for the other.
‘Fairplay’ is a complexly envisioned mosaic film that proves the point in an extremely audience-friendly package blending thriller, drama and social satire.
The two stories, one individual portrait of a person used to exist in quite rigid and uneventful environment marked by the never-changing routines, and a group portrait of “easy riders”, come to a joint end in the setting resembling a Western movie, dipped in warm colours of the 16mm footage.
Daron is the hero and the subject of Kevin Steen’s short documentary ‘Daron, Daron Colbert’ that world- premiered at Locarno.
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