Review: Yandere (2019)
Labouri’s Yandere is a proper exercise in elegance in blending the different film techniques and approaches, with nods to Japanese and French animation and retro-futurism as a concept.
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Review: Attachment (2019)
Kasia Babicz, working on her own script in this Warsaw Film School production, does her best to show rather then tell what is going on. Already scarce dialogue in the prologue completely disappears from the picture once the couple moves in together
Review: Waffle (2020)
What starts as a high-concept comedy quickly turns into a satire about the influence of the technology on basic human relationships and then to a retro-styled slasher in Carlyn Hudson’s frantic short Waffle.
Review: Haute Cuisine (2019)
Marie, played by Joséphine Japy with well-calibrated fragility, wants to be a chef and is proud to be the newest employee at the restaurant owned by Bruno Mercier (Phillippe Résimont), a famous Michelin-star chef
Review: Big vs. Small (2020)
The number one protagonist of the film is Joana Andrade, one of the rare women that compete in big wave surfing. We meet her “at work”, in the fishing village of Nazarené known for the biggest waves in the world
Review: The Social Dilemma (2020)
When we talk about the ethics and the humaneness (or the lack of them both) of the social media, two key arguments are the notion that “if you are not paying for the product, then you are the product” and that all the social media offers to is algorithm-based. Both of those arguments could also be used against the film’s distributor.
Review: Bulgarian Dream (2019)
Bulgarian Dream is, from its first- to the last shots followed by a textual info-card presenting epilogue of Petra’s migration to Bulgaria, also sharing the information that she is just one of over 10.000 German retirees to live in Bulgaria.
Review: Twins Woven from Dreams (2020)
The audiences tend to imagine prison life based on the works of fiction, pretty much all uniformed: there is a pressure from the outer ranks (the sadistic guards) and from within (the fellow inmates) accompanied by senseless violence. While it works as a template for Hollywood prison dramas, the reality (at least in the Continental Europe) is slightly different.
Review: I Pledge… (2020)
Military service was compulsory in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and every young man between 19-27 years of age had to spend 12 months in the army, mostly doing nonsensical tasks, obeying the commanding officers and being indoctrinated.
