Review: Blackbirds (2020)
The key trait for Blackbirds and Séméria’s approach to the subject of the birth of a young love is gentleness.
The key trait for Blackbirds and Séméria’s approach to the subject of the birth of a young love is gentleness.
A lot of things come from the family environment: attitudes, behaviour, even traumatic experiences.
In teenagers’ world, silence is often the most unpleasant thing in the world, so the conversation has to go on, even in a confined space like a car that glides down the road
The classical, evergreen idea about the family resentments resurfacing in the moment of crisis is matched with Figenschau’s sure-handed execution
Composed of longer takes by static camera, so all of them feel almost like real-time, and filmed on 35 mm stock, Oslo is a marvel to look at.
It is a rare occasion that a documentary captures the tension of a crime thriller and the intensity of the emotions running within a family.
In his second feature-length documentary Midnight Family, the American filmmaker of the young generation Luke Lorentzen takes us to the streets of Mexico City where the Ochoa family that operates an ambulance.
At first, there are not two bodies on the beach. There is just one, a body of a young woman (Laura Birn) in underwear, fishnet stockings and high heels wrapped up in nylon, suggesting that she is a femicide victim.
The basic story might be a bit of a template, but Chavanel does his best to elevate it into something completely organic, insightful and shocking towards the end
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