The Devil’s Harmony (2019)
The Devil’s Harmony is typified by an understated sense of humour that shifts between different tones.
August 2020
Banksy: Most Wanted (2020)
Despite their obvious enthusiasm for Banksy, Rouvier and Haley paint a strangely one-dimensional portrait of him here, ignoring his writing and film work. Ironically, the artist himself offered a far more thoughtful and revealing assessment of his place in the cultural landscape with his own Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary, Exit Through The Gift Shop.
Review: Homelands (2020)
Homelands is structured in two principal acts, one set during the winter season and the other at the time of a less busy summer, with a couple of archive material interludes along the way.
Review: Once Upon a Youth (2020)
Raw in its appearance and genuine regarding the motivations of all the people involved, Once Upon a Youth is a multi-layered work of art that goes deep in painting a portrait of a unique person, a landscape of a certain place in a certain time, the philosophical aspects of friendship and the generation that tried to do something against all odds.
Review: Speak So I Could See You (2019)
As a project, ‘Speak So I Could See You’ was developed over the course of years, and the richly textured, layered, top-quality work shows.
Review: Then the Evening Comes (2019)
Like their relationship towards the life and the civilization, Vinka and her mother Obrenija remain completely untouched by the fact that someone is filming them in order to tell their story.
Review: The Kites (2020)
Hosseini tries and succeeds to penetrate deep into the consequences of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century that are still colouring the lives of the people on the both sides of the border.
Review: The Visit (2020)
Montenegro is often portrayed as a patriarchal, macho society where being gay is regarded as an embarrassment for himself and his family, but Vojvodić and his co-writer Maja Todorović are taking a step further to expose the gerantocracy and the oppression that the elders impose on the younger generations as the core of the problem.
Review: Summer Fasting (2020)
Joyful and light-hearted, Summer Fasting is a perfect summer short film. The tempo is vivid, but it never feels forced, while Ziane takes an occasional breather to let the audience reflect about the things in the front (the friendship expressed through solidarity and fooling around together) and in the background (how it feels to be coming from the working class, or Muslim background, or both, in contemporary France)
