Cannes review: Orthodontics (2021)
An affecting and remarkable piece of work, ‘Orthodontics’ both works as a dark evocation of teenage confusion and fear as well showcasing an outstanding voice in contemporary Iranian cinema.
July 2021
Cannes review: In the Soil (2021)
More a psychological study than straightforward genre piece, ‘In The Soil’ is creepily observant of unsettling changes in a small household of two, or rather – outside its doors, in the backyard.
Cannes review: Aya (2021)
‘Aya’ is not only a film that points out at the consequences of climat change. This is also a coming-of-age story about a girl whose life is about to change drastically on another level.
Cannes review: When Night Meets Dawn (2021)
When the heavy summer heat reaches an anonymous suburb of Bucharest, it splits younger from older generations. Outside of the social housing complex from the late 1970’s with peeling facades and corroded balconies, there is no visible signs of life. Parents are probably planted in front of their TVs, cooling themselves off inside the air-conditioned […]
Diego Marcon: “The idea was to create a film that had to be percieved as a coded language of a very archetypal cinema genre, and to pervert it from the inside”
Italian visual artist and director Diego Marcon is in Cannes with his fourth short film ‘The Parents’ Room’ which screens in Directors’ Fortnight programme of the festival.
Cannes review: Free Men (2021)
Dreaming big in a place of broken dreams is as old as the history of humankind: the wish to break free from the drab reality, a burning hope that a wonder will change one’s life forever, a desire to start anew.
Interview with Samir Karahoda: “I use photography as a tool to complete the script and express my inner self”
The Kosovar filmmaker Samir Karahoda doesn’t like to call himself a director. He is, and stays a photographer, he says.
Cannes review: Inherent (2021)
The whos, the whys, and for that matter – hows, don’t seem to be playing any particular role in Nicolai G.H Johansen’s vampire coming-of-age drama ‘Inherent’ that competes in the short film section of Semaine de la Critique
Review: Horrorscope (2019)
Pol Diggler’s ‘Horrorscope’ is a bright and breezy spoof of horror movie trailers that lays bare their clichés with plenty of fast cuts, scary music and jump cuts.
