Film Reviews

6901 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 28/03/2024. 745 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Fishing Bodies by Michele Pennetta

08/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: For his debut film, Michele Pennetta has chosen to tackle a demanding subject - illegal immigration. It’s an issue we hear much about; including, often, much that is false  

Pescatori di corpi

Pescatori di corpi

Glory by Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov

08/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva’s second feature is a sociopolitical gem  

Slava

Slava

The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg by Michael Schindhelm

08/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: German director Michael Schindhelm’s Swiss documentary was screened in the Panorama Suisse section of the Locarno Film Festival  

The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

The Challenge by Yuri Ancarani

08/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: With his latest and very powerful film, Italian director Yuri Ancarani continues his exploration of the world as a vessel for ritualised gestures, repeated again and again ad infinitum  

The Challenge

The Challenge

Scarred Hearts by Radu Jude

08/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: Radu Jude brings us a striking, emotional follow-up to Aferim!  

Inimi cicatrizate

Inimi cicatrizate

The Apple of My Eye by Axelle Ropert

08/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: French director Axelle Ropert throws the rule book on political correctness out the window to bring us a comedy that’s ‘rough’ and unpredictable, just like life  

La Prunelle de mes yeux

La Prunelle de mes yeux

My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan by Alena Demyanenko

05/08/2016

Ukrainian director Olena Demyanenko’s film, which was unveiled at Odessa, paints an alternative portrait of the woman who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin in 1918  

МОЯ БАБУСЯ ФАНI КАПЛАН

МОЯ БАБУСЯ ФАНI КАПЛАН

Moka by Frédéric Mermoud

05/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: Swiss director Frédéric Mermoud returns with his new film, which had its world premiere in Piazza Grande  

Moka

Moka

A Jew Must Die by Jacob Berger

05/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: Swiss-British director Jacob Berger brings us a film based on the novel of the same name by Swiss writer Jacques Chessex  

Un juif pour l'exemple

Un juif pour l'exemple

I Had Nowhere to Go by Douglas Gordon

04/08/2016

LOCARNO 2016: Famous and controversial Scottish artist Douglas Gordon presents the world premiere of his latest feature in the Filmmakers of the Present section  

I Had Nowhere to Go

I Had Nowhere to Go

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