Review: Regret (2020)
When combined, solitude, recent tragedy and traumas from the past can prove to be a lethal cocktail inducing an overdose of regrets, as it is the case with Santiago Meneghini’s exquisitely spooky and metaphorical short Regret.
July 2020
Review: Lessons of Love (2019)
In this observational, but occasionally poetic, dream-like documentary, we meet our protagonist Jola in the breaking point of her life, when she is getting ready to leave her abusive husband Bogdan after many decades of domestic terror
Review: So What If the Goats Die (2020)
Quiet, almost muted as it is, So What If the Goats Die speaks volumes to the audience, not about the possible life with the aliens, but about the life as it is, as we know and live.
Review: Limbo (2019)
In Nalle Sjöblad’s ‘Limbo’, the light “horror” style serves its purpose to mask a straight-up social drama that lays in the centre of the plot, making it a possible programming choice for both genre-oriented and “regular” film festivals…
Review: Heat (2019)
Heat is predominantly a dark comedy, laced with the elements of body horror realized through a variety of outlandish and even cartoonish, but highly effective visual- and special make-up effects, done by Thaumar Rep and Rob Hillenbrink, respectively.
Review: Elder’s Corner (2020)
Elder’s Corner, a documentary by London-born Nigerian Siji Awoyinka, not only gathers many of the surviving greats of Nigerian music to re-record their lost songs, but weaves their individual stories within the broader picture of Nigeria as it raced through the second half of the twentieth century.
Reflections 3
I don’t watch much, anymore; binge-watching makes me ache and devouring cinema like popcorn is too loud and too crunchy for my current disposition. But what I watch, I swim in, letting it sink into my bones, so that it can flow with the water that is already so much of me.
Review: Corporate Accountability (2020)
Perel’s tone is not unemotional, but it can be considered a bit flat, which is in accordance with the factual tone of the book: it mainly consists of pure facts devoid of any kind of personal interpretation.
Review: Benevolent Ba (2020)
Benevolent Ba is certainly a film that is extremely fun to watch, deliciously tense and absurd at the same time. The script economy is marvelous and the characters, even those who could serve as passers-by, are developed to a certain extent over the film’s brief runtime of just nine minutes.
